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Most likely, Chinese explorers and merchants brought it over from their homeland. Because, if you study the two languages closely, as I have, you wil notice that some of the characters and kanji (which are the pictorial forms of Japanese, not the phonetic) are similar, if not the same. Although many of the pronunciations did not get passed on, the writing did. I'm not sure what they had before then. You'd have to search that on your own.
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