<P> Arai Hakuseki , who knew in the 18th century that there were stone tools in Japan , suggested that there was Shukushin in ancient Japan . After him , Philipp Franz von Siebold claimed that indigenous Japanese were Ainu people . Iha Fuyū suggested that Japanese and Ryukyuan people have the same ethnic origin , based on his 1906 research of the Ryukyuan languages . In the Taishō period , Torii Ryūzō claimed that Yamato people used Yayoi pottery and Ainu used Jōmon pottery . </P>
<P> Arai Hakuseki , who knew in the 18th century that there were stone tools in Japan , suggested that there was Shukushin in ancient Japan . After him , Philipp Franz von Siebold claimed that indigenous Japanese were Ainu people . Iha Fuyū suggested that Japanese and Ryukyuan people have the same ethnic origin , based on his 1906 research of the Ryukyuan languages . In the Taishō period , Torii Ryūzō claimed that Yamato people used Yayoi pottery and Ainu used Jōmon pottery . </P>
where did the original habitants of japan come from
where did the original habitants of japan come from
Ainu
Ainu