What is the origin of Japan?

In the 5th century, Yamato unified Japan. Immigrants are mostly yellow-skinned people, mainly composed of Fuyu people, Han people, Altai people and rope literati from the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BC-250 AD).

Immigrants from the East Asian continent crossed the ocean, went south along the Korean peninsula, crossed the strait, and boarded this volcanic archipelago at the end of East Asia.

Country name

Japan was first called "Harmony" or "Japan" (both pronounced "Yamato" and translated into "Evil Horse Platform" in Chinese), and the name "Japan" began to be used in the late 7th century. Its origin is not clearly recorded in Japanese history books.

China's Book of the New Tang Dynasty records that in the first year of Xianheng in Tang Gaozong (670), the Japanese sent messengers to congratulate the Tang Dynasty on pacifying Koguryo. Because I know a little Chinese, I hate the name "Japan", so I changed the name of the country to Japan. The messengers claimed that it was named because it was close to sunrise.

The record of the ten years (670) of King Wu Wenwang in the "History of the Three Kingdoms" of North Korea is also consistent with this: "Japan is more famous than Japan, and recently claimed to be famous." Zhang Shoujie of the Tang Dynasty recorded that "Wuhou changed Japan to Japan".