|||||The Japanes tribe was known as the Sumeri or Sammuri.|||||
As far as I know, the ancient Japanese were known as “Wa” or “Yamato”.
It sounds similar to “samurai”, which is where I presume the association comes, but “samurai” has its own Japanes language etymology, with no relation to any particular tribal name.
Incidentally, some Korean ultranationalist revisionists have attempted to claim that their ancestors travelled southwest and became the Sumerian people, based on similarly tenuous evidence.
These are but a frightful few of the blunders made by determined amateurs in the minefield of comparitive anthropology.
Thanks for the Samurai input.