Have you heard about the Ainou people?

[hellenes]

I ve heard in one documentary on TV that japan was populated originally by kaukasoid people and that the mongolian type was result of migration and eventual domination of mongolian type tribes from the mainland.
The link that i manage to find has only brief information. Does anyone posess any more detailed information on the subject?academic.pgcc.edu/~nkofie/lectureNotes/RaceEthnicRel.doc

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Apparently the japanese(the people there today) drove these aboringal peoples south and eventually out of the country. They most probably inhabited the islands in Oceania, maybe Papua new guinea and islands around there after there defeat.

[Togakure]

Actually, the Ainu were driven north, predominantly. Remnants of their people and culture survive today on the northernmost isle of Japan--Hokkaido. The Japanese half of my family resides there, in Sapporo.

I'll shop around for more info. If I find anything interesting, I'll post it here.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Thanks for clearing that Togakure http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[Pindar]

The Ainu are indeed a mystery. The original title of Shogun is a reference to leading imperial troops against these very people.

The main Japanese Islands are divided between two distinct types of geography. The South with its warmer climate was initially better suited to the rice growning of the Mongloid migrants from the Korean Penninsula and Oceana. The North with its conifer forests remained the domain of the Ainu and their hunter gatherer lifestle. As the Yamato group grew in dominence the Ainu were driven farther North until only Hokkaido was left to them.

Modern Ainu are pratically indistinguishable from Modern Japanese due to prolonged contact. However, I know of scholars who when traveling in Japan Thirty to Forrty years ago met Ainu with blue eyes.

No one really knows where this group came from. Not unlike the recent discovery of the Caucasoid settlements (mummies over 6'5 with blond beards) in Western China dating back over twenty five hundred years (I think that was the dating).

[hellenes]

There was a documentary on greek tv about blonde egyptian mummies and there is a book that states thet ainou people are of greek origin IONOU-iones the book can be found in the link http://www.eleftheriskepsis.gr/esdetails.asp?book=61

[Pindar]

We know that Rameses II had red hair from his mummified body.

[Spino]

Quote[/b] ]There was a documentary on greek tv about blonde egyptian mummies and there is a book that states thet ainou people are of greek origin IONOU-iones the book can be found in the link http://www.eleftheriskepsis.gr/esdetai....] (http://www.eleftheriskepsis.gr/esdetails.asp?book=61)

The notion that the Ainu are the descendants of Greeks seems a little far fetched to me. Didn't the Ainu occupy the Japanese islands long before the concept of a 'Greek' people even existed (or for that matter before the Minoans, Myceneans, Ionians and Dorians)?

[Orda Khan]

I remember reading about the Ainu, fascinating stuff

....Orda