Minoru wrote > > Something close to it. But the major distinction is that it
was done> in 2000 years or more ago and everyone fought with each others> in
those days with sticks and stones or swords. Also it is difficult> who are the
original inhabitants in case of Ainu and other groups> and all of them were
more or less on the same level of civilization.> Also, similar things were
happening all over the world in those days> without really any clear
distinction of who is invaders and who are> not. In modern history of Japan,
there is no such attempt of> annihilation like what immigrants did in 17-19th
centuries in North> and South America are done.
So is your position as follows?
The Yamato people arrived on the Japanese islands about 2000 years ago and took
the land from the Ainu who were occupying it. This situation has not changed in
the intervening centuries.
Peter Clark
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