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The question of Japanese national identity is tricky. A number of ethnic Koreans born and living in Japan regard themselves as Koreans and not Japanese, partly because they refuse to take Japanese citizenship. Other minorities have ambivalent feelings. Okinawans may distinguish themselves from people in mainland Japan. There is a small population of a native race called the Ainu who live in Hokkaido, but they have lost many of their cultural traits.

1 Origins of the Japanese people

The origin of the Japanese people is a controversial topic. Ethnologists have presented numerous theories: That Japanese are descended from Polynesia, from South Asia or Ancient Israel. However the most accepted theory is that modern Japanese are principally descended from the Yayoi and perhaps the Jomon people, with later influences from China and Korea.

There is archeological evidence of stone age people living in Japan from 30,000 BC in the paleolithic period. At this time Japan was connected to Asia by land bridges, and nomadic hunter-gatherers crossed. They left flint tools, but no evidence of permanent settlements.

Pottery was first developed by the Jomon people in the 11th century BC. Their name, which means "straw-rope pattern", comes from the characteristic markings they made in Jomon pottery. The Jomon people were MesolithicThe Mesolithic (middle stone age) is the period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. It began at the end of the Pleistocene epoch around 10,000 years ago and ended with the introduction of farming, the date of which varied in each geographical r hunter-gathererIn anthropology, a the hunter-gatherer way of life is that led by certain societies based on the exploitation of wild plants and animals. Consequently, hunter-gatherers are relatively mobile, and groups of hunter-gatherers have fluid boundaries and composs, though late Jomon people may have developed a proto-agriculture. The ethnicity of the Jomon people isn't known for sure, however one theory is that they were South East Asians.

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