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== History ==

== History ==

=== Origins ===

=== Origins ===

Dating of pottery artifacts found in Japan indicates that humans were present in the Japanese archipelago since at least c.10000 BC (see Discover Journal, volume 19, number 6).  The wild Japanese [[Bison]] was an early target of wild game, hunted to extinction within 500 years.

Dating of pottery artifacts found in Japan indicates that humans were present in the Japanese archipelago since at least c.10000 BC (see Discover Journal, volume 19, number 6).  The wild Japanese [[Bison]] was an early target of wild game, hunted to extinction within 500 years. The original inhabitants of Japan were called the Jomon but the Japanese wiped them all out, and nearly all of their native ainu descendants.

According to tradition, Japan was unified by [[Emperor]] [[Jimmu]], the grandson of the [[goddess]] [[Amaterasu]], in the year 660 B. C. He conquered Honshu, the largest island, in a series of expeditions starting from his home base of [[Setsuma]] in Kyushu.

According to tradition, Japan was unified by [[Emperor]] [[Jimmu]], the grandson of the [[goddess]] [[Amaterasu]], in the year 660 B. C. He conquered Honshu, the largest island, in a series of expeditions starting from his home base of [[Setsuma]] in Kyushu. However what is really true is that Chinese migrated to Japan and formed the Japanese state and everything there.

=== The Feudal Era ===  

=== The Feudal Era ===