Where did the Japanese come from?

Speaking of where the Japanese ancestors came from, people can easily think of the story of Xu Fudong crossing the river, and even many Japanese people firmly believe that they are descendants of Xu Fu. However, according to the current archaeological and genetic research in Japan, the Japanese have various origins, and China is only one of them, but their blood relationship is very close to that of Koreans.

Generally speaking, the Japanese are mainly a mixed-race of rope scholars and yayoi people.

Rope writers lived in Japan about 65438+6000 years ago. Some of them migrated from islands in Southeast Asia and Oceania, and some from Northeast Asia. It is named after being good at making pottery with rope patterns.

The rope literati is short in height, with dark skin color, curly hair, deep eye socket, slightly thick lips and thick hair, which is close to the present Micronesians in terms of body characteristics. Nowadays, Ryukyu people and Ainu people retain the characteristics of rope literati more. In 1980s, Japan conducted a DNA test on the remains of a native Japanese. According to the data, he is far from the modern Japanese, but very similar to the Ainu people in Hokkaido.

Yayoi people from East Asia are the main source of modern Japanese.

Around 300 BC, East Asians from the Korean peninsula migrated to Japan on a large scale, and these people were called Yayoi. Because of mastering advanced farming technology and culture, it finally replaced the dominant position of rope literati in Japan. After a long period of mixed blood, the Yamato nation, that is, the modern Japanese, was formed.

The story of Xu Fudong crossing the river has a certain credible foundation, because the migration time of Yayoi people is roughly the same as that of Qiang Qin. However, China people are not the main body of Yayoi people, but Koreans from the Korean Peninsula are. In 2003, Tokuyoshi Tokuyoshi of Tokyo University School of Medicine compared the HLA genes of residents in East Asia and found that Japanese and Koreans were very similar.

In any case, the sources of the Japanese are very mixed, and the main body comes from the East Asian continent and migrates through the Korean Peninsula.