Who were Japan's first settlers?

Answer 1

Old Answer: vance

New Answer: Japan has been inhabited for quite some time. Stone Age humans arrived in Japan some where around 30,000 B.C.E., a date derived from testing of flint tools found on the islands, via a land bridge that once connected Kyushu to the Korean peninsula. It was around 10,000 B.C.E. that those people began develop an identifiable culture. Called the Jomon, they were unique in the fact that they learned to craft pottery while they were Mesolithic people, an art which is generally believed to have developed during the Neolithic age. In fact, Jomon pottery is believed to be some 2,000 years older than Mesopotamian pottery.

It wasn't until around the third century B.C.E. that the Jomon were introduced to people not from their islands. The Yayoi emigrated from what is now Korea to the Japanese islands due to a large wave of migrating people out of Northern China. From here there are several theories about what happened to the Jomon people that range from a combination of the Jomon and Yayoi people to the Yayoi replacing the Jomon completely.

Answer 2

They came to Japan in 30,000 BC. They were Australoids, like the Aborigines of Australia. There may have been some Negritos from Taiwan as well. In 13,000 BC, they were all absorbed by the invading Jomon people.

Answer 3

There was actually more than one person to first settle in the country of Japan. Nomadic hunter gatherers were the first people known to roam the islands, which eventually gave way to Neolithic settlements (around 10,000 years ago). However, in the third century BC, these inhabitants began to settle into more than one agricultural community, and they were known as the first people to settle in Japan.

Answer 4

The Ainu were the first recorded people to live in Japan.

There are still a few remaining communities in the country.