2007-01-01 00:25:18 · 6 answers · asked by John 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
In China, there is a legend that the First Emperor of Qin ordered a fortune-teller to go to an island supposedly inhabited by fairies with one thousand men and one thousand women to bring back a potion for immortality. The fortune-teller never came back and the men and women became the ancestors of the Japanese.
Of course, this is probably not true. However, if you believe that the Japanese did not sponateneously pop into being, some brave Chinese people probably moved to Japan and settled there permanently. For centuries, the Japanese have patterned their culture after the Chinese, including religon, philosphy, and parts of daily life. Eventually, they molded their own culture out of the Chinese culture.
Perhaps the Japanese wanted to seperate themselves from the Chinese identity, but they turned hostile to their neighbors and joined the Western effort to occupy China. Later, in World War 2, they killed up to 8 million Chinese through experimentation similar to those of the Nazi death camps, wanton killing, or the spreading of disease.
2007-01-01 07:30:02 · answer #1 · answered by whitearmofrohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this for your essay/homework instead:
What are the historical relations between China and Japan?
What historical relations are there between the Chinese and the Japanese?
To answer your question, yes there are many. Buddhism is only one of them.
2007-01-01 09:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you go with the scientific theory that "mankind" began in Africa, Japanese are Chinese descendants because Japan is an island and the original inhabitants of China would have traveled to Japan in order to inhabit it, whether by waterway, or over ice or land during the ice-age.
2007-01-01 08:35:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the most part, they have been bitter enemies over the centuries. During WWII, the Japanese over ran and annihilated the Chinese. China has not forgotten.
Chow!!
2007-01-01 12:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that depends what you mean. By Culture they haven't gotten along for awhile now. Look up about the problems between them that date back to WW2 and before. The Empire of Japan and the invasion of China. Long history on that one.
2007-01-01 10:38:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. China was a major cultural influence on Japan.
2007-01-01 08:31:30 · answer #6 · answered by Isis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋