[FITZ]

I know a "hispanic" guy who was asked fairly often if he was Japanese when he was in the service--- and he thought that was hysterical because he had a different stereotype of Japanese --- short, slanted eyes, not hairy--- which he isn't --- but someone from Japan even told him that in Japan there is a tall and hairier type of person -- more European looking and that he did look just like one of them.

[El Gato]

but someone from Japan even told him that in Japan there is a tall and hairier type of person -- more European looking and that he did look just like one of them.

Those folks were the "original" Japanese, until they were displaced to the norhternmost islands by invaders from Korea. Some think that the first wave of asian immigrants to the Americans may have been related to these people, the "Ainu", based on skeletal remains found in several places in the Americas.