who was japans first indians? and the first people who found japan were and were did they come from?

Question

plzzz tell me u got to answer this question before 1/18/07!!!!!

Answer 1

The Ainu

Answer 2

The aboriginal people of Japan are a Mongoloid or even Caucasoid race called the Ainu. They are now restricted to mostly Hokkaido. Japanese folk are exceedingly racist about them and it is hard to find out anything about them, even nowadays. Check Wikipedia; if anyone has something, they do. Follow links for interesting extra details.

They also share genetic information with groups as far away as Tibet and India. Someone spreading from Russia/central Asia in widely diverging directions? Well, they lost out to those who followed.

For the record, the current winners in Japan were folk shoved into Korea, then from there to Japan. They now outnumber the Ainu 1,000 to 1 or so.

Naturally, someone else could have come even before them and been slaughtered or just died out leaving nothing unique in goods for us to discover.

Answer 3

The Ainu. The Ainu and probably came over from Korea or the Kuril's as those were the closest links to mainland Japan had during the ice age.

Answer 4

The Ainu are an indigenous people of Japan, and are closely linked to the early Jomon culture. The original peoples and culture of Japan were the Jomon. The term "Jomon" means "cord-marked" in Japanese. This refers to the markings made on clay vessels and figures using sticks with cords wrapped around them.

The Jomon period is the time in Japanese pre-history from about 10,000 BC to 300 BC. Japanese culture has evolved greatly over the years, from the country's original Jomon culture to its contemporary hybrid culture, which combines influences from Asia, Americas and Europe.

Nomadic hunter-gatherers crossed to Japan from East Asia, Siberia, and possibly Kamchatka. It is believed that the Jomon had very likely migrated from North Asia or Central Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomon
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/ainu.html

Answer 5

"The Ainu (アイヌ, Ainu? IPA: /?ajnu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō and north of Honshū in Northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula. Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word aynu, which means "human" (particularly as opposed to kamuy, i.e., divine beings) in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language; Emishi, Ezo or Yezo (蝦夷) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from the ancestral form of the modern Sakhalin Ainu word enciw or enju, also meaning "human"; and Utari (ウタリ, Utari?) (meaning "comrade" in Ainu) is now preferred by some members. There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today, however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origins or in many cases are not even aware of them, their parents having kept it from them so as to protect their children from racism........"

Answer 6

Don't you mean that YOU have to answer this question before 1-18-07?

I believe Japan was colonized by the Chinese. I'll let you look it up and see if I'm right.

Answer 7

If by Indians you mean the first settlers on the islands, I believe it was people from Korea. I don't recall where I read this but it was in one of my college textbooks. And, I believe some of the martial arts practiced in Japan descended from Korean martial arts.