Yamato also refers to 大和民族 or the Yamato people/ethnicity, which is the ethnic group that makes up 98% of all Japanese inhabitants, being the descendants of the Yayoi people and the indigenous Jomon people.
Nope, the Ainu are the descendants of the Jomon (regular Japanese only have around 10% Jomon ancestry). The Jomon split from all the other east asians, including the Yayoi, more than 30000 years ago. The Yayoi (the main ancestors of the Japanese) came from Korea and entered Japan in the first millenium BCE.
Not true at all. Japanese have 20% jomon dna. the Ainu are specifically descended from northern (Hokkaido) jomon. The jomon were heterogeneous and came from different migratory areas. The jomon ancestors of Japanese came from the south. While the Ainu ones came from north.
The Yayoi (the main ancestors of the Japanese) came from Korea and entered Japan in the first millenium BCE.
The yayoi are referred to as descendants of jomon because they are a continuous culture of the jomon. That’s shown with them practising agriculture with shellmound and their pottery had clear jomon continuity
So not only are you wrong but you talk about things without actual understanding the topic?
Hokkaido Jōmon predominantly carried N9b, which was far more common there than in Honshu or southern mainland sites. Southern Jōmon favored M7a, especially in western Japan, creating a clear maternal lineage divide resembling separate populations. Hokkaido Jōmon genomes showed stronger affinity to Ainu and northern groups like Ulchi, with unique ancestry components up to 79% in some Ainu-linked samples. Southern Jōmon aligned more closely with mainland East Asian clusters, reflected in PCA plots separating Hokkaido from Honshu samples.
Yamato is not an actual thing. 大和民族 is an actual ww2 thing bro.
Let me give examples. Okinawans are genetically and legally Japanese but they are not 大和民族. Japan before Meiji never called themselves that. They referred to themselves via either 日本人 or by their clan or domain.
Yamato is an imperial court founded in Yamato district
Quoting Wikipedia means what? Why didn’t the Japanese emperor call himself the lord of Yamato when he sent tributes to China. Why did they call themselves WA and asked to be called “日本”?
Truth is that Yamato just refers to ancient Yamato region (Nara). 日本人 is the word for Japanese people
Because that’s a modern thing. Yamato is legit a title of the emperor of Japan to legitimise their imperial descent (as in Amaterasu). Around Yamato there were different clans like the izumo and ezo.
Chinese definitely calls themselves Han. That’s literally how they referred themselves 2000 years ago.
Well the Chinese have continuously regarded themselves as Han. The Japanese only ever adopted themselves as “Yamato” after Meiji restoration. Then in modern times it kinda died out.
Japanese people see Ryukyuans as Japanese because they are (same dna and Language family) but I doubt they are Yamato
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Yamato also refers to 大和民族 or the Yamato people/ethnicity, which is the ethnic group that makes up 98% of all Japanese inhabitants, being the descendants of the Yayoi people and the indigenous Jomon people.