Hello,<br><br>For the Origin of  the Founders of Japan, please read following 1975 essay by Dr. Gari Ledyard.<br><br><br>Galloping along with the Horseriders: Looking for the Founders of Japan<br>Author(s): Gari Ledyard<br>
Source: Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), pp. 217-254<br>Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies<br>


Stable URL: <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/132125" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/stable/132125</a><br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Kwang-On Yoo<br><br><br><br><br>


<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Werner Sasse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:werner_sasse@hotmail.com" target="_blank">werner_sasse@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">









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Thanks for the link.<br>
Just one note before I start reading the article:<br> "new light on the <i>origin of the Japanese people,</i> suggesting that <i>their language</i> is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in <a title="More news and information about Japan." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank">Japan</a> from the Korean Peninsula," (italics mine). We must be careful to distinguish between the origin of a LANGUAGE and the origin of the PEOPLE....<br>






Best, Werner Sasse<br><br>

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Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:37:16 -0500<br>From: <a href="mailto:lovehankook@gmail.com" target="_blank">lovehankook@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" target="_blank">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a><br>





Subject: [KS] Japanese language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, The New York Times, May 4, 2011<div><div></div><div><br><br>Hello,<br><br>If I may, I would like to share following article with [KS] subscribers. <br>





<br><br>"The finding sheds new light on the origin of the Japanese people, suggesting that their language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in <a title="More news and information about Japan." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank">Japan</a> from the Korean Peninsula,"<br>





<br>"John B. Whitman, an expert on Japanese linguistics who works at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, in Tokyo, and at Cornell University, called the new finding solid and reasonable.” <br>





<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html?_r=4" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html?_r=4</a><br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Kwang-On Yoo<br><br><br>                                           </div>





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