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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.

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