http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuya
I read somewhere the Antiquities dept. won't allow DNA testing.
Posted on 12/08/2006 5:21:36 PM PST by blam
But "with a Ginsu knife you can slice them so thin your inlaws will never come back."
For the most part the military ruling class (up to modern times otherwise known as the Samurai) consisted mostly of the people earlier identified as the Emeshi, and even earlyer known as Jomon ~ the Emperor's family lost its identity as Korean sometime in the Middle-Ages ~ and only recently has anyone noted that.
The Chinese rice-culture people and the wheat/rye growing Hakka (from North of the Great Wall in China) constituted most of the commoner classes from the time of the Emeshi takeover.
Other groups maintained collection stations for silkworm bolls from quite ancient times and we only know a little bit about them. Still, silk produced from that source made its way West over the Silk Road, so it's possible some of those agents were Caucasians or Indians.
No doubt the Japanese are as mixed as everybody else on Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuya
I read somewhere the Antiquities dept. won't allow DNA testing.
Genetic diversity in conjunction with monoculturalism, seems to have been a very successful recipe for long-lived empires. Is the U.S following this model?
So, the Arabs were overrunning countries even back in Egyption times.
The Ainu, their cousins, lived on the Siberian coast and moved into more Southerly areas as the Emeshi were incorporated within Japanese society as the military component we know as the Samurai.
The Yayoi, to confuse and confound all analysis, are composed of two and maybe three different groups of Chinese from very different areas. All arrived in Japan before writing systems were widespread in China ~ and we know that because it was not until the arrival of the Koreans in the 500s that writing became known in Japan (as well as Buddhism).
The work on the Hakka, one of the Chinese components, has been done by Chinese themselves ~ kind of hard to find interesting stuff about them so you have to look for "Great Wall" in any searches. The Hakka are the folks the Han supposedly built the wall to keep out!
Didn't work. Anyway, the Hakka raised wheat. The other Chinese raised rice. Both moved to Japan pre AD.
I'm not sure who the settlers were who brought chickens, but they brought an interesting breed that with a little selection can grow enormously long feathers. Always wanted one of them.
The Roman tribune in Acts 21 mistakes St. Paul for an Egyptian--so he must have thought some Egyptians were white (it's St. Paul's ability to speak Greek that makes him question his initial assumption, so he wasn't thinking of a Greek from Alexandria).
Yup. The Hakka are an interesting group. They moved all the way across China (five major migrations) and to this day are known as the 'guests.' They apparently originally had some Caucasian features as there are records that indicate severe persecution and even death for those with such features during the migrations.
bttt
That's the "nose story". I think it's really more about the Han than the Hakka.
Looks like a young dianna rigg
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