Posted on 12/13/2011 2:59:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
What evidence is there for that assertion?
It’s ironic that you should ask that question given your freepname.... ;-)
There is some DNA evidence and linguistic evidence showing a connection to southern Korea. There was intermingling with the people already in the Islands so it is untrue to say that they are genetically Korean. I think there are two haploid groups unique to Japan actually a heritage from the earlier peoples.
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