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It depends on what is called "Japanese".

If "Japanese" means the people who speak Japanese, it answers for itself. They've always spoken it, but for a long time they was no known written record. it was only when they started contacts (religious or trade) with china that they acquired a textual language. Since the earliest records of Japanese, the language hasn't gone dramatic changes, except in vocabulary.

If "Japanese" is the inhabitants of Japan, it is difficult to know, as aercheology does show the language spoken by the people producing the artifacts. Some people known through imperial chronicles might have spoken languages akin to Ainu, the language that was spoken in Hokkaido. In Hokkaido and Okinawa respectively, Japanese started being used in the XIXth and XXth century, after it was conquered and annexed.

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