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→Shinto answer: Thanks for the improvements. This needs some quality refs; this youtube link you provided could work as a secondary resource (and should, if you got info from it) but a primary reference should also be included.
===Evidence against this view===
===Evidence against this view===
Evidence against a Japanese origin for humanity is the late date for the founding of Japan (which is traditionally placed in 660 BC but some consider it to be 97 BC) compared to other civilizations being founded over a thousand years earlier than even the traditional date, the first civilization (Sumer) being nearly five thousand miles away from Japan, and the Japanese language containing a j-sound while older languages like Phoenician and Hebrew do not.
Evidence against a Japanese origin for humanity is the late date for the founding of Japan (which is traditionally placed in 660 BC but some consider it to be 97 BC) compared to other civilizations being founded over a thousand years earlier than even the traditional date, the first civilization (Sumer) being nearly five thousand miles away from Japan, and the Japanese language containing a j-sound while older languages like Phoenician and Hebrew do not.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4VdNPhV-4</ref>
==References==
==References==