[blam]

"The American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, (Science Frontiers #65, Sep-Oct 1989) reported that "pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese." Brace studied the skeletons of about 1100 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 (original Mongolian) from whom most modern Japanese are descended. Brace said further that "...this 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 royalty and nobility, passing on Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yayoi."

Some have said that the practice of 'white-face' among the Japanese is to emulate their ancient rulers. There are ancient paintings of the samurai that the Japanese keep hidden...they're caucasian.

[Centurion2000]

Some have said that the practice of 'white-face' among the Japanese is to emulate their ancient rulers. There are ancient paintings of the samurai that the Japanese keep hidden...they're caucasian.

It would be interesting to see those.

[curmudgeonII]

The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royalty and nobility...

I was under the impressionn that the "pure" Japanese considered the [hairy] Ainu to be considerably inferior to other Japanese.

[weikel]

So Hitler was inadvertently right when he declared the Japanese "Honorary Aryans" interesting...