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Sawada Kenichi
Senior Researcher
International Research Institute of Controversial Histories
Very early at the beginning of 2026, on January 10, a newly found fact was introduced during
an NHK TV program “Intelligent Exploratory Frontier by Tamori and Yamanaka Shinya—gigantic volcanic eruption gave birth to the “Japanese people!?” It was explained that the root of Japanese-ness derives from gigantic volcanic eruptions and people constantly exposed to the crises of volcanic eruption came to be equipped with a sense of awe toward nature and very active in terms of helping each other.
In addition, gene D-M55, typical to the Jomon people, and fear-inducing gene are explained, which make people fit for group-living and enhance people’s ability to discern danger. And it was also explained that cooperativeness is the key to overcoming difficulties. That is, to help each other and to be eager to sacrifice oneself for the sake of others. This TV program was very interesting to watch, dealing with various fields of physiology, genetics and earth physics.
Incidentally, regarding the Jomon people, who were the Japanese people’s ancestors, how did they come to the Japanese Archipelago?
The ancestors of the modern humans “Homo sapiens” are said to have originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Then, they moved to every part of the earth. In 2020, the University of Tokyo and others announced that not only Japanese Jomon people but also all the eastern Eurasians came via the southern route. They decisively asserted not “many” but “all” of them.
Homo sapiens, ancestors of the Jomon people are said to have reached as far as Indonesia about 70,000 years ago. Toba volcano erupted about 74,000 years ago. In the southern part of India, stoneware was unearthed from under the volcanic ash stratum.
Also, in Australia, a stone ax with a polished blade dating back to about 65,000 years ago was unearthed. This was a polished stone ax and with this tool in hand, people gained the ability to cut down big trees and make boats of wood.
Aboard their log boats, they arrived at the southwestern tip of Kyushu about 40, 000 years ago. Starting from the present Kalimantan (Borneo Island) aboard boats, stopping at the Okinawa islands, they arrived at the Honshu island. It was not at all easy to complete the nearly three thousand kilometers long voyage, riding against Kuroshio Current, one of the world’s strongest currents.
When a log boat got upset by transverse waves, throwing a member of the fellow crew into the sea, they helped each other up aboard the boat again. To desert those thrown into the sea meant to lose rowers of the boat, leading to death of oneself. That was why a strong comradeship was naturally born. To save others’ lives was tantamount to saving one’s own life. With this strong bond, only one thousand people finally arrived at the Japanese Archipelago, which is revealed by nuclear DNA analysis. The first group of the Japanese people were mere one thousand. Out of this group of one thousand people were formed the Jomon people.
It was a geopolitically lucky event that the Jomon people came to live in the Japanese Archipelago. Japanese Archipelago is surrounded by the seas and there was no danger of being the victims of wars waged by other peoples and no attempt was made to wage a war against other peoples and kill enemies.
From the ruins of the Jomon people, no weapons to kill others have been unearthed. After rice-growing was introduced during the Yayoi people’s period, probably there were wars over harvested rice and other crops and among the Haniwa figurines, some were made to resemble warriors. However, in Japan, which had never experienced a war waged by other peoples, there were a few wars or a few war casualties.
Certainly, in the short term, for one hundred years from the latter half of the fifteenth century and in the long term, for one hundred and fifty years, there was Sengoku, or warring-states period when one war after another took place. Even during this period, war was fought exclusively among warriors and in principle, there were no civilian deaths involved in the war. Clearly, Japan experienced few wars.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the Japanese people fiercely fought but it was for the cause or mission of self-defense or liberation of Asia that Japanese fought so violently, willing to sacrifice their own lives.
The Japanese people with such national trait cannot have massacred as many as 300,000 guiltless civilians at the time of siege of Nanjing in 1937. The supreme leader at the time of the establishment of the present People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong himself said, in Yan’an, half a year after the siege of Nanjing, “The Japanese Army had many sieges but few annihilations.” This means that there was no massacre, doesn’t it?
Nonetheless, at present, the Chinese government built the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in the city of Nanjing, citing the Japanese Army killed 300,000 people.
After all, is it that this memorial hall reflects the self-image of the Chinese culture that prefers wars and nonchalantly commits one massacre after another. In that, this memorial hall can be said to be the symbol of the self-image of the horrible China or a symbol of China’s shame.
It was a profound discovery that the NHK’s program this time reveals that Japanese people’s cooperative and mutually assisting trait was formed through the rice cultivating culture that requires unified cooperation of many people and that at the same time genetically Japanese people have this tendency.
Japan should disseminate to the world its proud history with more confidence. Getting rid of the misunderstanding that the Japanese people are belligerent, Japan should conciliate countries of the world.