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  2. Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    The Ainu are one of the few ethnic minorities native to the Japanese islands. They were subject to forced assimilation and colonization by the Japanese since at least the 18th century. Japanese assimilation policies in the 19th century around the Meiji Restoration included forcing Ainu peoples off their land. This, in turn, forced them to give ...

  3. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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    [81] [82] Another Japanese ship went ashore in about 1850 near the mouth of the Columbia River, Wickersham writes, and the sailors were assimilated into the local Native American population. While admitting there is no definitive proof of pre-Columbian contact between Japanese and North Americans, Wickersham thought it implausible that such ...

  4. Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Overall, the 'Ancestral Native Americans' descended from the admixture of an Ancient East Asian lineage contributing about 65% ancestry, and a Paleolithic Siberian population known as Ancient North Eurasians, contributing about 35% ancestry. Ancestral Native Americans are most closely related to 'Ancient Paleo-Siberians' and 'Ancient Beringians'.

  5. Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in ranking to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry.

  6. FX's 'Shogun' adaptation keeps focus on Japanese culture ...

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    “It was definitely intentional in some ways, but I will say that we are all Asian Americans,” Kondo, who is of Japanese descent, said of their writers room. “None of us were Japanese native ...

  7. History of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Many Japanese Americans served with great distinction during World War II in the American forces. Nebraska Nisei Ben Kuroki became a famous Japanese-American soldier of the war after he completed 30 missions as a gunner on B-24 Liberators with the 93rd Bombardment Group in Europe. When he returned to the US he was interviewed on radio and made ...

  8. Ethnic groups of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Ōbeikei Islanders are an ethnic group native to the Bonin Islands (also called the Ogasawara Islands), part of Tokyo Prefecture. They are descendants of Japanese, Europeans, White Americans, Polynesians and Micronesians who settled Hahajima and Chichijima in the 18th century.

  9. Japanese-Americans and return migration - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Americans have been returning to their ancestorial homeland for years as a form of return migration. [1] With a history of being racially discriminated against, the anti-immigration actions the United States government forced onto Japan, and the eventual internment of Japanese Americans (immigrants and citizens alike), return migration was often seen as a better alternative.