Posted on 12/26/2020 9:47:28 AM PST by conservative98
Japan is closed to visitors.
Aiming to slow the spread of the new, highly infectious coronavirus mutation first detected in the UK, Japan said it is temporarily banning people who don’t live there from entering the country.
The ban will take effect Monday and run through January, Reuters reported.
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All visitors?
We had better send Admiral Perry back to Japan.
I’m fine with this. We have pretty good policies on first immigration. You need a reason to come here, or you don’t get in, for the most part. And if you get arrested for a serious crime you get kicked out, for the most part.
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
C. Loring Brace
(December 19, 1930 – September 7, 2019)
‘Japan is closed to visitors.’
why...? why should these Japanese fear outsiders...? don’t they sleep, eat and bathe with their masks on...?
I would call them sane for doing that.
I wore a mask on in the early stages and still got COVID-19 anyways. At this point, I feel uncertain about it all.
Japan has this thing about protecting their people and legal residents and isn't big on open borders.
My ‘Perry’ comment was my attempt at historical humor.
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