The Ainu people were granted automatic Japanese citizenship in 1899.
The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalised on their own land - over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese. They have been in Japan since 10,000 BC. Out of the entire human race, they were the ones who invented the first pottery.
One ethnic group that has suffered a long history of discrimination in Japan is the Ainu people, who are the indigenous population of the country. Another group that has faced discrimination is the Burakumin, who historically belonged to the "outcaste" class. Ethnic Koreans, particularly in the past, have also experienced discrimination in Japan.
They look like caucasians. They have fair skin, wavy and long and thick hair and have a round face.
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Clues from archeology place people in Japan as far back as 10,000 BCE
Most people lived to about 40 years old. What they did, except for war, made little difference on how long they lived.
One ethnic group that has suffered a long history of discrimination in Japan is the Ainu people, who are the indigenous population of the country. Another group that has faced discrimination is the Burakumin, who historically belonged to the "outcaste" class. Ethnic Koreans, particularly in the past, have also experienced discrimination in Japan.
Japan's Fuji-san or Mt. Fuji has been regarded as sacred mountain for virtually as long as humans have lived nearby. It was originally a sacred mountain of the Ainu, the aboriginal inhabitants of Japan.
No one discovered it. I'm not sure about the spoken language, but Kanji (which is the pictorial form of Japanese, not the phonetic) was brought over from China by Chinese explorers or merchants. Very few, if any, of the pronunciations for these characters were adopted by the Japanese people. Nobody ever discovers a language, but they learn it.
Hard to say. An 'aboriginal' refers to a member of an older, usually ancient, group of people that lived or live off the land. In the USA, there are American Aboriginals, for instance, who are wrongly called, "Indians". There are groups of people in Australia who lived there far, far longer than the white people. They are Australian Aboriginals, or simply, aborigines. The aboriginal people in Canada are the Inuit and the Metis people. They have wrongly been called, "Eskimos" for a long, long time. The people who lived in what is now called, Japan" are the Ainu people. They are aboriginals who live on the northern island of Japan and in nearby Russia. The Philippines were occupied by an aboriginal group of people from Malaya, far before the white explorers discovered them. Taiwan also has aboriginal people who probably came there thousands of years ago from mainland China. So, you see how it is hard to answer your question - there may be as many as 100 aborinal languages.
They look like caucasians. They have fair skin, wavy and long and thick hair and have a round face.
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According to Legend, Japan's very first emperor won the throne through a victory in a Sumo match, that would entail almost since before recorded Japanese history. The true origins of Sumo, archaeologists have discovered, in fact date to the time of the Jomon and the Ainu, and Sumo, is in fact derived from Ainu folk wrestling. The Ainu practice a form of wrestling that is similar to Sumo, and they used it, to settle disputes between tribes, it was their version of single combat. In other words, there is no martial art more Japanese, than Sumo. Actually, the form of wrestling itself, is in fact a little more Japanese than the Japanese themselves, as it was practiced by the Ainu since even before Korean Yayoi arrived in Japan. If this is true, then Sumo is likely the oldest continually practiced form of wrestling on earth.I know, although not 100% sure, that what few cave paintings atributed to the Ainu, that have been found in Japan, many tend to depict wrestling matches that ressemble Sumo. Now, let me make a disclaimer, there is absolutely no concrete proof, that Sumo comes from Ainu folk wrestling NEVERTHELESS, the Ainu people are short, large boned, and stockily built, in fact many Ainu, what few full blooded remain, have a body structure similar to European Neanderthals. Genetically they are Asian, but they are built like Neanderthals; short, stocky, very large bones (9 inch circumference wrists not unknown among the men), and yes muscular. In other words the Ainu are built for Sumo, they DO have the body structure for it, many are also very strong they posses natural, "god given" physical strength. Sumo is a form of wrestling that you can only practice if you are strong; if you can not AT LEAST bench press 400lbs, don't even CONSIDER doing Sumo, you will get destroyed. Legend has it, some Ainu Sumo wrestlers were so powerful physically, they could uproot small trees. The reason the people of Japan run the gamut between "pathetically skinny" and "frighteningly tough" has to do with what part of their genetic background is favored. The Japanese are a mixture of Jomon, Ainu, and Yayoi, of those three, the Yayoi people, tended to be tall and slender, much like the people of Korea. Because mendelian inheritance issues come into play here; if you have a tall skinny man mix with a short stocky woman, their children could come out either way. Now, mind, both Jomon and Ainu, where short and sturdily built, the only difference was skin color; whereas Ainu tended to have light, even pale skin, the Jomon had a deeper skin tone. That is why modern Japanese run the gamut; some are very light, while others are dark, it depends whether the Ainu, Jomon or Yayoi in them is favored or not.Its not wise to stereotype; some Japanese men, like for example, Masahiko Kimura, are TOUGH AS NAILS, a far cry from the "effeminate Asian man" stereotype. Another example is Antonio Enoki, and of course Sunny Chiba of Karate movie fame. Masahiko Kimura, is a good example of a Japanese, whose Ainu blood is very strong; the majority of Ainu men, were often built like him. In the northernmost Japanese island where the Ainu now live, you won't find any "skinny wimps" I will guarantee that much.User:67.148.120.72747
200 years
For as long as people have lived there
Indians probably did for a long time...
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