According to current mainstream theory, Japanese have mixed origins in the Jomon people known for their distinctive pottery culture (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) and the Yayoi people with their own ...

Caption During the Yayoi period, immigrants from the Korean Peninsula admixed with the Jomon people, leading to the formation of the ancestral population of modern Japanese people. These ...

Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Today, Japan is an international hub for both business and pleasure. However, this was not always the ...

Earlier theories suggested that the native Jomon people mixed with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula, known as the Yayoi, between 300 B.C.E. and 538 C.E. However, a recent study published in ...

the genetic composition of the modern Japanese people is a blend of the Jomon people and the modern Koreans. And those immigrants arriving from the Korean peninsula during the Yayoi period would ...

Hokkaido Jomon cultures continued during the Yayoi period long after the Jomon ended in southwestern Japan, but these continuing (or Epi-Jomon) sites developed a new character. Most sites consist ...

the genetic composition of the modern Japanese people is a blend of the Jomon people and the modern Koreans. And those immigrants arriving from the Korean peninsula during the Yayoi period would ...

Published in the Journal of Human Genetics, the University of Tokyo study confirms that immigrants from the Korean Peninsula interbred with the indigenous Jomon population during the Yayoi period.

Published in the Journal of Human Genetics, the University of Tokyo study confirms that immigrants from the Korean Peninsula interbred with the indigenous Jomon population during the Yayoi period.