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Booku african people of japan8/4/2023 ![]() The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed Oct.BBC, May 20, 2020, Japan's forgotten indigenous people.The first known Africans in Japan arrived in the 16th century as slaves of Portuguese traders. The image is from Tibet in 1903 and depicts Tibetan nuns. Our rating: Falseīased on our research, we rate FALSE the claim an image shows Japan's first inhabitants, who were African. Hudson also said the Ainu are descendants of the Jomon, not a separate group that migrated, as the post claimed. "(These humans) didn't sail directly from Africa, they came by land through East Asia, though the last stage of the journey probably involved boats as Japan was a group of islands at that time," he wrote in an email.įact check: Famous 16th century Japanese samurai was an African expatriate That's a group that originated in Africa 20,000 years prior but isn't considered African given the cultural and genetic changes in the intervening years. Hudson said Japan's first settlers likely arrived about 40,000 years ago. It is quite possible that a few Africans reached Japan at an earlier stage, in the Middle Ages for example, but I am unaware of any direct evidence." "There are illustrations of such people from the time. "The first widely accepted Africans to reach Japan were slaves of Portuguese traders in the 16th century," Hudson said. But they did come to Japan some centuries later, Mark Hudson, an archaeologist with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, told USA TODAY. There is no archaeological or anthropological evidence for Africans during the country's Jomon period, contrary to the post's claim. The post also misses on the nature of the first Africans to come to Japan. ![]() "Their heads were shaved, apparently, and they wore these astonishing wigs on top," Park said.įact check: Image shows 1913 boxing match, not longest fight in history Africans weren't in Japan until the 16th century The image can be linked back to an October 2010 NPR article on a London auction selling rare photos taken by British engineer John Claude White during a 1903 mission to Tibet.ĭavid Parks, director of books, maps and manuscripts at Bonhams, an international auction house, told NPR the women depicted were Tibetan nuns. It whiffs on the timeline and nature of the migration, and the photo actually shows a group of Tibetan nuns. The post received over 40,000 interactions in about a month, including some incredulous comments. The post says this group "became the first humans to ever inhabit the Japanese Islands" and were later followed by another group called the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group living in the Hokkaido region north of Japan.Īccompanying the post is a black-and-white image of a group of seated women with hair piled high on top of their heads.įact check: Ancient skeleton with prosthetic eye discovered 15 years ago a group of African/Nubian Chinese, later known as the Jomon, took this route and entered Japan," reads a Sept. Watch Video: Meet Japan’s octogenarian mastering new skateboard tricks The claim: Image shows Japan's first inhabitants, who were AfricanĪ viral image being shared on Facebook claims to reveal Japan's earliest settlers.
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