Japanese History

I never went to Okinawa (Though I wish I did), but I have been in Osaka, Tokyo and Kyoto. I nearly pleaded to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I never went there. I hoped to visit Japan again, but it's going to be hard once I get to Canada. Lucky me.

So educate us on the 16th century japan Reginmund!

 very few Japanese come to our forum,

Originally posted by pinguin HistoryPoi:   I am interested in the interaction of the Ainus with the average Japanese in the present and during history. I hear somewhere that some Samurai warriors were Ainus. It is possible? What do you think?   Pinguin

The ainus lived mainlt yin Hokkaido, which is the north island. So it wasnt untill the maiji restoration that the japanese went up there much. But when they did, they kinda mixed and there was no much tension actually. Im sure some could have become samurais, but it was pretty late in history that they mixed, though its possible. I wrote an essay on Hokkiado when I lived in Japan, so if i can find it, ill attatch it. The Ainu people people are kind of a more islandy culture, and looked a lot like Ainus. Oh and it was crazy btw, ill tell you a little story. I was in an  Ainu village and I watched this amazing dance called the hair dance, which pretty much just involved people swishing there hair up and down. And then i was watching some TV a couple of months later in Australia, and I turned it to a travel show. On this show, they were tlaking about the culture on some of the people on Islands off Taiwan, that had not been effected by the japanese invasion. It was crazy because they dressed exactly the same, and did the exact saqme dance. THen, thinking about that, a couple of weeks later, I went to a museum in Sydney, and it was about people from the torrestraite, and they did the exact same thing. It was amazing proof about the spread of these people. The exact same dance, in the same clothes. Anyway, the Ainus did come from the South, but also from North (Siberia) and West (Mongolia mainly, but also China). Ill try attach the other thing later.

But once upon atime, Aniu occupied most of the Japanese island, later there were pushed back to the North.

Meiji period by the way. The traditional people of Japan came from China, and that there was large amounts of korean influence in the culture. However noone knows about the previous people, like the Jomons and Ainu people's origin. Also, it used to be easy to walk from Siberia from Hokkaido, long after Korea and Japan. But the Ainu culture is so different, and...islandish...from the modern japanese and medieval japanese. So yah, that my iimput.

Korean influence towards Japan was profound only in the early days. Once Japan developed to become a civilization, they started to restrict the Korean influence over Japan until... they only allowed very few in Nagasaki along with few Dutch and Chinese traders.

Jomons culture was created by Ainu

Originally posted by HistoryPoi hm, japan was still taking culture and stuff from Korea after they became a civilisation. For example it was recently since they were taking cultureal things such as religions, and geometric city things.Please Reginmund, my knwlegde is worse than sketchy, but ive managed to say soemthing with some content!

Yeah, too bad it is so badly written.