re: #16 austin_blue

The First People of Japan were the Ainu:

Not exactly. The Ainu pre-existed, at least on the central and northern islands, the influx of invaders from bronze age Korea.

However, long before the Ainu there is evidence of at least two previous human groups on the islands. For example, the people who made the pottery decorated 10,000 years ago are not believed to be the Ainu.