Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of Japan
The Japanese are not indigenous to their land. They first came to their present home at the end of the bronze or the beginning of the iron age.
Philological research decisively proves that the people who dwelt in the islands of Japan before the Japanese were the Ainus. Some attribute a Mongolian, others, especially European scholars like Balz and Chamberlain, a Caucasian origin to the Ainus. At the present time about 17,000 Ainus live on the island of Ezo. They form a contrast to the Japanese, for they are powerfully built, exceedingly hairy, and on a lower level of civilization. It is a question whether the numerous remains of the stone age found in almost every part of the Japanese islands are to be attributed to the ancestors of these Ainus, or to a people who inhabited the land prior to the Ainus.
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