First Americans Were...Japanese

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Were America's first inhabitants Japanese fishermen?
The first inhabitants of North and South America could have been fishermen from Japan who traveled there in small boats, according to research in the latest edition of New Scientist magazine...Jon Erlandson, an archeologist from the University of Oregon, believes the first people to arrive were probably fishermen who followed a near continuous belt of kelp forests in the coastal waters of the Pacific Rim, from Japan to Alaska and southern California. His research, which will be published soon in another academic journal, is based on discoveries of ice-age sea voyages in Japan, a study of human DNA and investigations of prehistoric marine ecosystems. "I think they were just moving along the coast and exploring. It was like a kelp highway," Erlandson told the weekly science journal...Firstly, he found evidence which showed that the inhabitants of Honshu, one of Japan's main islands, set out across the North Pacific more than 20,000 years ago to Kozushima, an island 50 kilometers away to collect a type of volcanic glass to make tools...And he believes it is perfectly possible for them to have journeyed northward from there to the Kuril Islands, then the Kamchatka Peninsula, and on to the island-studded shore of the Bering land bridge and beyond to the New World...more...

[succubusqueen]

Load of bull....that is just speculation. That shouldn't be called news.

[amdg]

.... from the University of Oregon...

What are the first names of the 4 other member of your party?
1. Taiki
2. Takuya
3. Shinji
4. Masabu
5. Masaka

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The wagon tipped over while floating. You lose
1 set of clothing
1 wagon wheel
427 pounds of food
Masabu drowned

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[IkemenTommy]

What are the first names of the 4 other member of your party?
1. Taiki
2. Takuya
3. Shinji
4. Masabu
5. Masaka

Press SPACE bar to continue

The wagon tipped over while floating. You lose
1 set of clothing
1 wagon wheel
427 pounds of food
Masabu drowned

Press SPACE bar to continue

What is their profession?
1. Salaryman
2. Rice farmer
3. Whale poacher

[AssKissinger]

If anyone springs the 5 bucks for the full article I'd like to read it.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526161.900-americas-most-ancient-mariners.html

[amdg]

Mat’s General Combini

1. Onigiri
2. Porn
3. Beer
4. Sake
5. shouchu

Total bill – 40,000 Yen

Which item would you like to buy

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Shinjii has commited ritual suicide

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[IkemenTommy]

Damn, amdg. You suck. You already lost 2 guys and you haven't even left Tokyo station.

[amdg]

Takuya leaps in front of the wagon train...

- 20,000 Yen

You must choose an American season to begin your journey

1. American hot
2. American cold

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Masaka! Masaka has been abducted.

[IkemenTommy]

Masaka! Masaka has been abducted.

By the native Indians....? oh wait...

Kyodo via Japan Today: Were America's first inhabitants Japanese fishermen?

[martindesu]

If anyone springs the 5 bucks for the full article I'd like to read it.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526161.900-americas-most-ancient-mariners.html

I have it... I am doing a Ph.D so I have an athens username. I have it saved on my desktop - what's the best way of sharing it?

[AssKissinger]

Copy paste and post (or pm).

[martindesu]

it's a pdf. I'll host it on my site. give me a minute.

done...

http://web.mac.com/martinirwin/globalclimatechange/links.html

click the obvious link...

[Samurai_Jerk]

She lost me with the first line of the article.

Instead of being big game hunters, the first Americans may
have conquered the New World by boat following a trail of
sushi...

[Iraira]

She lost me with the first line of the article.
Quote:
Instead of being big game hunters, the first Americans may
have conquered the New World by boat following a trail of
sushi...

C'mon, haven't you also walked miles out of your way, as you were following a trail of sushi? Especially, if that trail of sushi was wearing very very short shorts?

[AssKissinger]

it's a pdf. I'll host it on my site. give me a minute.

done...

http://web.mac.com/martinirwin/globalclimatechange/links.html

click the obvious link...

Thanks a lot Martin!~

[6810]

I have it... I am doing a Ph.D so I have an athens username. I have it saved on my desktop - what's the best way of sharing it?

Copy the text from the document and paste it here in a post. I do that all the time with Pdfs,

[dimwit]

The theory that the first North Americans were related to the Ainu has been kicking around even since they found Kennewick man/Spirit Cave man. The article is brilliantly deceptive as it talks about Japanese, rather than Ainu.

[james]

C'mon, haven't you also walked miles out of your way, as you were following a trail of sushi? Especially, if that trail of sushi was wearing very very short shorts?

yellowtail?

[james]

The theory that the first North Americans were related to the Ainu has been kicking around even since they found Kennewick man/Spirit Cave man. The article is brilliantly deceptive as it talks about Japanese, rather than Ainu.

something i've found quite fascinating is the striking similarities between ainu and native american music, dance and in some cases dress.

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[Tommybar]

But it is the Japanese that share the tell tail
"mogohan" or blue butt with the North American Indians, not the Ainu.

[IkemenTommy]

something i've found quite fascinating is the striking similarities between ainu and native american music, dance and in some cases dress.

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And the fact that they both can't hold their liquors. Makes perfect sense:nihonjin:

[American Oyaji]

something i've found quite fascinating is the striking similarities between ainu and native american music, dance and in some cases dress.

I have noticed the same thing. When I went to the Nebuta festival in Aomori, the sounds and dancing were so similar to some I've seen in the U.S., that it made me think long and hard about origins of the Native Americans.

[Greji]

that it made me think long and hard about origins of the Native Americans.

Quite simple really. When what we now refer to as the Japanese arrived in Japan from Asia, they forced all the Ainus to cross the land bridge through Alaska and to the United States, so they could develop an infra-structure and be conveniently placed where they could be killed by Bush, Chaney and whoever replaces Karl Rove.

[Mike Oxlong]

Quite simple really. When what we now refer to as the Japanese arrived in Japan from Asia, they forced all the Ainus to cross the land bridge through Alaska and to the United States, so they could develop an infra-structure and be conveniently placed where they could be killed by Bush, Chaney and whoever replaces Karl Rove.

I'm gonna guess that you've had at least as much to drink tonite as I have

[IkemenTommy]

I have noticed the same thing. When I went to the Nebuta festival in Aomori, the sounds and dancing were so similar to some I've seen in the U.S., that it made me think long and hard about origins of the Native Americans.

You can say that the Ainus were the ones to import the pachinkos into the US, which is now a multibillion dollar casino enterprise in the various reservations.

[Greji]

You can say that the Ainus were the ones to import the pachinkos into the US, which is now a multibillion dollar casino enterprise in the various reservations.

Just as a side issue, I was putting together a study on the operations of the casinos several years back as the so-called Indian Casinos were just coming on line.

Several of the places that I visited surprised me, as of course they were on reservations and openly touted (if discreetly) as Indian Casinos, but I never saw an Indian (read Native American for you PC's).

Their management tells me that when the license approvals from the State and National governments are approved as appropriate, the tribal councils will simply call the necessary Los Vegas entity and contract their casino in toto, sometimes to include it all from construction to the total operation thereof. They then sit back and collect their take (read very large take) of the revenue and do not have to waste time with any of that really nasty stuff such as work and sweat.
Nice job if you can get it whether you're an Ainu or not!

[Mulboyne]

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The structures near Yonaguni have popped up in the news again. The forty minute video above is a good background.

Channel 4: Lost city of of Mu 'found'

A Japanese explorer claims to have uncovered the location of the ruins of the lost city of Mu. The search for the mysterious city which is said to have sunk somewhere in the Pacific Ocean has captivated the popular imagination of adventurers for years. Many scientists dismiss the existence of Mu (sometimes called Lemuria) as sheer fantasy on the lines of the lost continent of Atlantis. But marine geologist Masaaki Kimura believes he has found its ruins in the waters off southern Japan. Undaunted amid persistent scepticism, he has worked for decades on proving that a group of extraordinary rock formations off Japan's southern-most island of Yonaguni is actually the foundations and evidence of an ancient culture that disappeared into the Pacific over 4,000 years ago...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Channel 4: Lost city of of Mu 'found'
...marine geologist Masaaki Kimura believes he has found ruins {of the lost city of Mu} in the waters off southern Japan.
Undaunted amid persistent scepticism, he has worked for decades on proving that a group of extraordinary rock formations off Japan's southern-most island of Yonaguni is actually the foundations and evidence of an ancient culture that disappeared into the Pacific over 4,000 years ago...

Yikes that Scottish giant was very busy or had Y.B.F.!




Back in 1988 I went diving at Yonaguni. The "Monuments" were also on the beach--on land---and were fairly normal ingenious rock formations.
Wake me up when they find the Stargate.

[Greji]

Wake me up when they find the Stargate.

They never get it right. Everybody knows that Mu was two subway stops from Asakusa on the kudari sen.

[joshuaism]

Is somebody from this forum having fun with the Japan Times?

Asian link no surprise to Navajo

By LAWRENCE MANYGOATS
Tuba City, Arizona

The Aug. 16 (Kyodo) article "New World's first dwellers Japanese?" is interesting. As a Native American of the Navajo Tribe and an Iraq war veteran, I would say my ancestors might have welcomed (arriving fishermen who followed the belt of kelp forests in the coastal waters of the Pacific Rim).

The Navajo have always been here and we crossed no land bridge, as my people believe that our creators are descended from Asian heaven.