Japanese people: a combination of three cultures

- Future Science-KR Chowdhury

In the 1950's and 1960's, when people bought electronic devices, they saw the Made in Japan sign. Made in Japan was considered a symbol of high quality. We know the Japanese people as hardworking people. In terms of population, the number of Japanese is slightly less than the population of Bihar. To compare the area of ​​Japan divided into several islands, the land area of ​​Japan is equal to the total area of ​​Gujarat and the newly created Ladakh.

Until now it was believed that 'the ancestors of the present Japanese people have the cultural heritage and legacy of the two ancient tribes.' A research article has recently been published in the journal Science Advance. Which shows that 'the roots of the Japanese people have 3 fata.' Simply put, the ancestors of the Japanese people have some part of the DNA obtained from the chromosomes of 8 different classes of people. Every nation is proud of its ancestors and history.

If we call someone the offspring of two fathers, the gall sounds the same, but the fact is that 'the ancestors of the Japanese species were three, i.e. they are considered to be the offspring of ૩ Adi Baap. Having a very short history, the Japanese people showed their yeast by war by attacking the superpowers America and Russia. Before World War I, he defeated Tsarist Russia.

If America had not dropped an atomic bomb on Japan in World War II, the outcome of World War II would have been somewhat different. Impressions are gained in a fluid, global, diffused way. With a combination of ethnography, archeology, and history, scientists have sought to trace the origins of the Japanese people. Whose saga is somewhat like this.

What does history say?

Human habitation began on the islands of Japan some 2,000 years ago. The Japanese are believed to have reached the islands of Japan by migrating three different peoples during three different periods. The period from 15,000 BC to 300 BC is known in Japanese history as the Jomon period. The people living at that time are known by history as 'Jomon people'. Then, from 500 BC to 500 AD, the people of East Asia arrive on the island of Japan.

Which also teaches the Japanese people to cultivate rice. This period is considered as 'Yayoi period'. Then in AD 200 to AD The period of 500 is considered as 'Cocoon period'. From where modern Japan developed, a strong foundation of social, cultural and political system was laid. In the Cocoon period, a group of humans migrated to the island of Japan. This migration is not specifically targeted at history, science or archeology. However, some historians believe that, during this period, a new group of people arrived on the Japanese island.

According to experts, the Japanese island has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period, which lasted for 5,000 years. Which can be considered the ancestors of the Jomon people. Japanese historians agree that the Jomon people were not an independent group of people. These people included hunter groups, tribes migrating to different areas.

It also included a group of primitive hunters who have lived on the Japanese island since ancient times. Thus, the wandering hunter Jomon people get along with the Yayoi people who come with farming technology. Then the cocoon people arrive. Which gave the Japanese people of that time an understanding of the new regime. These three time periods and their characteristics were different.

What does the ice age and the increase in the surface of the ocean indicate?

The last ice age was observed in Japan about 4,000 years ago. Experts believe that the ice at this time would have facilitated the migration of the Jomon ancestors to the island of Japan. The Jomon people are also classified as 'Mongloids'. These include Asian, American, and Polynesian tribal groups. The structure of their teeth is similar to the structure of the current Taiwanese tribes. What language did people speak in the Jomon period? It is not yet clear. According to historians, the roots of the Jomon people were in East Asia. The first group of Ujayans crossed the Korean Gulf and settled on the Japanese island during the winter.

Sixteen thousand years ago, various hunting families migrated to Japan. Eventually they turn into Jomon people. Researchers estimate that the Jomon population in ancient times numbered about 1,000. Their numbers were limited for thousands of years. It is noteworthy that the Jomon people did not come into contact with other people for a long time.

At least 15,000 to 12,000 years ago, the climate changed again, and as the sea level rose, the Jomon people may have been cut off from the rest of the world. Which caused the waters to recede over the Korean Gulf region. In the Stone Age, when agriculture was developed in Europe, the tribes of the hunter-gatherer tribes did not cooperate. But there is also evidence that hunting tribes in Japan developed agriculture by merging with other peoples.

The Yayoi period begins with the Stone Age. Passed in the Copper Age, this period ends in the Iron Age. Copper and iron were also used in the Yayoi period. Humans from China and Korea arrive on the Japanese island. Which eventually transforms into the Yayoi people.

What does modern research show?

Scientists from Ireland's Trinity College, Dublin and Japan's Kanazawa University have worked together to unravel the genomes of 12 ancient Japanese asmi fossils. Which has been compared to the genome of the present Japanese people. Research has shown that 'cocoons' account for as much as 71% of the Japanese genome. While 15 per cent are 'Jomon people', and 15 per cent are 'Yayoi people'.

Researcher Shigeki Nakagom says: He further says that 'research data shows the strength of ancient genomics, which, in turn, showed how the DNA of the ancestors in the blood of the Japanese people was mixed.

The genomes of twelve ancient Japanese people have been solved by Shigeki Nakagome's team. Of these, nine genomes belong to the 'Jomon people' and three belong to the genus Cocoon. The oldest fossils used in research are those of 'Jomon' women. Which is nine thousand years old. Fossil skeletons are one and a half thousand years old. Which is of the cocoon period. In this research Prof. of Kanazawa University. Takashi Gakuhari also participated.

The specialty of this research is that 'for the first time the complete genome of the Kofun people has been solved.' Research has shown that over time, a new group of cocoons migrated from East Asia to Japan. Most of these people were Han people of ancient China. The Han people are genetically similar to the people of ancient China. The Han people were natives of the 'Yellow River' or 'West Leo River' area.

Yayoi and Cocoon Periods: The Creation of Modern Japan

The people who migrated from South Korea to the Japanese island were known as the 'Yayoi people'. Who developed agriculture in Japan. People from China and Korea migrated here during the Yoyi period. Who had the knowledge to cultivate. The Yoyai people gave rise to the early social order here. In addition, a new concept of land ownership also came into vogue.

When the Yoyai period changed to the Cocoon period, the ideology and political leadership of a nation began to emerge. So far it has not been clear that 'even during the Cocoon period people from other areas migrated and came to live in Japan.' New research proves this. The Kokoon people laid the foundations of modern Japan. Thus modern Japan is created. The last three thousand years have seen a rapid change in the culture of the Japanese people.

Michael Adolfson, who teaches Japanese history at the University of Cambridge, says: But scientific evidence is now available. Which sheds new light on the facts in the dark. The essence of the research shows that most of the genes in the blood of the Japanese people are from the people of East Asia.