Just who are the Japanese?

by Will on December 18, 2009

This isn’t particularly new or exciting, but I recently stumbled across this fascinating article from Jared Diamond on Japan’s enthnographic history.

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Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.

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1 Nob Akimoto December 18, 2009 at 9:39 am: He’s clearly missing the most obvious hypothesis:
Japan was originally settled by a human like species from space who gathered both jomon and yayoi peoples together to teach them their superior language and culture.

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