Akitas in Finland

There are approximately 300 japanese akitas in Finland. Today's Finnish akitas descent from imports from Europe, USA and Japan. Our population is small and only about 30 akitas are registered in the Finnish Kennel Club every year.

Akita Club of Finland is dedicated to preserve the akita breed and strive to keep it's gene pool wide and observe the health records of our dogs. Thus Akita Club of Finland also keeps an open register of SA and VKH/UDS diagnosed akitas.

Here you can take a look at Finnish Kennel Club's official dog database Koiranet database. Please notice that there are almost 200 american akitas under the breed akitas as they were not transferred to american akitas when the akita breed was split in the FCI countires year 2000.