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The origins of the Ainu are uncertain, they are likely a branch of the proto-Japanese Jomon stock (the original inhabitants of Japan), that migrated from Africa some 70-60 thousand years ago, and occupied Japan and most of Asia before the Mongol expansion from China, (the current Japanese people are the “Yayoi” who immigrated to Japan from China circa 350 B.C.). Various other Asian aborigine populations, from Okinawa to Taiwan, and as far away as Australia, are also thought to be related to them.
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