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Do you think the Ainu would have created a civilization similar to what Japan is today? If not, how do you think Japan wouldve turned out? I've read that Japanese people who settled the islands came from Korea and China. If they didnt do that, or not a noticeable amount did, what would Japan be like with the Ainu the majority? This is their historic range.



I think the whole feudal era of Japan and the things associated with it (samurai, ninja, shogun-all that stuff) wouldnt have happened. Japanese imperialism and WW2 invasions wouldnt have happened-because that culture and government was created by ethnic Japanese, not Ainu.

Without the ethnic cleansing and persecution the Ainu went through, they wouldnt be such a small minority in the world. I dont know how big their original population was, but they would definitley have far more than 20,000 people living in Japan today.
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