[adam_az]

http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracame.htm

[blam]

"I am a Japanese Christian writer living in Japan. As I study the Bible, I began to realize that many traditional customs and ceremonies in Japan are very similar to the ones of ancient Israel. I considered that perhaps these rituals came from the religion and customs of the Jews and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel who might have come to ancient Japan. The following sections are concerned with those Japanese traditions which possibly originated from the ancient Israelites."

It is my opinion that the myths and customs flow would be going from the east to the west instead of the other way. The customs may have originated in Japan.

Read This book by Stephen Oppenheimer.

Eden in the East

The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia

Stephen Oppenheimer

The biblical flood really did occur - at the end of the last Ice Age. The Flood drowned for ever the huge continetal shelf of Southeast Asia, and caused a population dispersal which fertilized the Neolithic cultures of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, thus creating the first civilizations. The Polynesians did not come from China but from the islands of Southeast Asia. The domestication of rice was not in China but in the Malay Peninsula, 9,000 years ago.