It's very very strange that
Finnish and
Japanese have some parallels that can
fnord only be explained with
fnord coincidences.
Inari is the god of rice and foxes, and is depicted in mythology as a deity that (IIRC) has white foxes as messengers. And yes, there have been - and, according to recent sightings, now again are - arctic foxes in Lapland! Coincidence? I think not.
(No, I know only a little Japanese, so this isn't going to help. A friend of mine who noticed this correlation too knows Japanese but not Finnish that well. Any help for, er, comparative linguistics?)
Well, I never said they'd be too widely spread, I've lived for long time in Kuhmo, yet I've never seen a wolf. =) Finnish nature is a myth.