Who are Japanese? Scientists astonished by findings in Japanese DNA study
Traditionally, there was a belief that the Japanese population came down from two major groups: the rice-farming migrants from East Asia and the indigenous Jomon- – the hunter-gatherers. However, this recent study, led by scientists at RIKEN’s Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, pinpoints a third ancestral group with associations to north-east Asia, particularly the Emishi people. This discovery backs the “tripartite origins” theory proposed in 2021.