The most exhaustive anthropological study of the Japanese has been made by Dr E...

The most exhaustive anthropological study of the Japanese has been made by Dr E. Baelz (emeritus professor of medicine in the Imperial University of Tokyo), who enumerates the following sub-divisions of the race inhabiting the Japanese islands.

The first and most important is the Manchu-Korean type; that is to say, the type which prevails in north China and in Korea. This is seen specially among the upper classes in Japan. Its characteristics are exceptional tallness combined with slenderness and elegance of figure; a face somewhat long, without any special prominence of the cheek-bones but having more or less oblique eyes; an aquiline nose; a slightly receding chin; largish upper teeth; a long neck; a narrow chest; a long trunk, and delicately shaped, small hands with long, slender fingers. The most plausible hypothesis is that men of this type are descendants of Korean colonists who, in prehistoric times, settled in the province of Izumo, on the west coast of Japan, having made their way thither from the Korean peninsula by the island of Oki, being carried by the cold current which flows along the eastern coast of Korea.

The second type is the Mongol. It is not very frequently found in Japan, perhaps because, under favourable social conditions, it tends to pass into the Manchu-Korean type. Its representative has a broad face, with prominent cheek-bones, oblique eyes, a nose more or less flat and a wide mouth. The figure is strongly and squarely built, but this last characteristic can scarcely be called typical. There is no satisfactory theory as to the route by which the Mongols reached Japan, but it is scarcely possible to doubt that they found their way thither at one time.

More important than either of these types as an element of the Japanese nation is the Malay. Small in stature, with a well-knit frame, the cheek-bones prominent, the face generally round, the nose and neck short, a marked tendency to prognathism, the chest broad and well developed, the trunk long, the hands small and delicate—this Malay type is found in nearly all the islands along the east coast of the Asiatic continent as well as in southern China and in the extreme south-west of Korean peninsula. Carried northward by the warm current known as the Kuro Shiwo, the Malays seem to have landed in Kiushiu—the most southerly of the main Japanese islands—whence they ultimately pushed northward and conquered their Manchu-Korean predecessors, the Izumo colonists.

None of the above three, however, can be regarded as the earliest settlers in Japan. Before them all was a tribe of immigrants who appear to have crossed from north–eastern Asia at an epoch when the sea had not yet dug broad channels between the continent and the adjacent islands. These people—the Ainu—are usually spoken of as the aborigines of Japan. They once occupied the whole country, but were gradually driven northward by the Manchu-Koreans and the Malays, until only a mere handful of them survived in the northern island of Yezo. Like the Malay and the Mongol types they are short and thickly built, but unlike either they have prominent brows, bushy locks, round deep-set eyes, long diver-gent lashes, straight noses and much hair on the face and the body. In short, the Ainu suggest much closer affinity with Europeans than does any other of the types that go to make up the population of Japan.

Good thread

Good post.

but Malays are tanned skin. Japanese are pretty fair skin.

Some Japanese are pretty dark

Who gives a shit about asians? They evolved from insects.

You do apparently, since we have no threads about insects

Nobody gives a fuck you retarded amerimonstuo

Kazbek was so beautiful, thanks Georgian.

By Malay they mean proto-Malays from Taiwan and the Flips. A good deal of the population does have demonstrable SEA ancestry, especially in the islands, for obvious reasons.

The typical Japanese of the present day has certain marked physical peculiarities. In the first place, the ratio of the height of his head to the length of his body is greater than it is in Europeans. The Englishman’s head is often one-eighth of the length of his body or even less, and in continental Europeans, as a rule, the ratio does not amount to one-seventh; but in the Japanese it exceeds the latter figure. In all nations men of short stature have relatively large heads, but in the case of the Japanese there appears to be some racial reason for the phenomenon. Another striking feature is shortness of legs relatively to length of trunk. In northern Europeans the leg is usually much more than one-half of the body’s length, but in Japanese the ratio is one-half or even less; so that whereas the Japanese, when seated, looks almost as tall as a European, there may be a great difference between their statures when both are standing. This special feature has been attributed to the Japanese habit of kneeling instead of sitting, but investigation shows that it is equally marked in the working classes who pass most of their time standing.

It is the current year for dog's sake.
If your classification is not based on genetic, it belongs in the trash.

The most prominent trait of Japanese disposition is gaiety of heart. Emphatically of a laughter-loving nature, the Japanese passes through the world with a smile on his lips. The petty ills of life do not disturb his equanimity. He takes them as part of the day’s work, and though he sometimes grumbles, rarely, if ever, does he repine. Exceptional to this general rule, however, is a mood of pessimism which sometimes overtakes youths on the threshold of manhood. Finding the problem of life insolvable, they abandon the attempt to solve it and take refuge in the grave. It seems as though there were always a number of young men hovering on the brink of such suicidal despair. An example alone is needed finally to destroy the equilibrium. Some one throws himself over a cataract or leaps into the crater of a volcano, and immediately a score or two follow. Apparently the more picturesquely awful the manner of the demise, the greater its attractive force. The thing is not a product of insanity, as the term is usually interpreted; letters always left behind by the victims prove them to have been in full possession of their reasoning faculties up to the last moment. Some observers lay the blame at the door of Buddhism, a creed which promotes pessimism by begetting the anchorite, the ascetic and the shuddering believer in seven hells. But Buddhism did not formerly produce such incidents, and, for the rest, the faith of Shaka has little sway over the student mind in Japan. The phenomenon is modern: it is not an outcome of Japanese nature nor yet of Buddhist teaching, but is due to the stress of endeavouring to reach the standards of Western acquirement with grievously inadequate equipment, opportunities and resources.

tfw my body type is exactly like that...

iktf tb.h
Always have to tuck my shirt in or I look like a manlet.

>Kimchi hypothesis again

you realize this map is basically showing that the Ainu/Jomon were distantly related to the Tibetans and the Yayoi were something else (most likely Korean from the geography), right?
According to the color scheme less than 1/4 of Tokyo even has Haplogroup D, and it's down to virtually 0% in Chugoku

but current Korean who migrated from northern area or raped babies of Khan are nothing to do with the ancient people living in Korean peninsula

he has lost his marbles, let him alone

>150years old baseless hypothesis lol

OP here. I'm not Korean, but keep posting. Thanks.

Explain why all your teenage boys like to jump into volcanoes

sorry master

I'm genuinely cracking up at your posts. Please don't stop!

The Ainu have nothing to do with Europeans

I recall seeing the busts of Baelz and Scriba when I was at Tokyo. No doubt Baelz was well-placed to make observations in his day, but I think new methods and theoretical advances leave his work out-dated and misleading, if still interesting to read.

You are wrong, in fact. The Ainu diverged from proto-Caucasoids, and were therefore more closely related to modern European populations than to East Asian populations.

I don't have a problem with that in theory. What I do have a problem with is that they irritate me as nuts which lead to things as simple as talking to them becoming an ordeal.

How the fuck can Japanese people have Manchu ancestry when the Manchus didn’t even exist as an ethnic group. They were literally just a bunch of Jurchens who mixed with some other groups before being renamed to Manchu to reflect their new population by Nurhaci.

discussions on identity are so divisive and toxic. Why do people enjoy it?

How the fuck can Japanese people have Japanese ancestry when the Japanese didn't even exist as an ethnic group. They were literally just a bunch of Japanese who mixed with some other groups before being renamed to Japanese to reflect their new population by Shigeru Miyamoto.

>goblin op
you tell me

>Japanese people are descended from Koreans
nips btfo