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More than most countries, Japan thinks of itself as uniquely homogenous
and, in terms of language, culture and origin, ethnographers broadly agree.
But the fair-skinned Ainu - supremely hairy of body, with luxuriant beards
on the men and tattooed lips on the women - are the notable exception.
One thing is increasingly clear: they are more obviously the descendants
of Japan's original inhabitants, the Jomon, inventors of the world's
earliest pottery, than are modern Japanese, who are descended from later
settlers from Korea. This infuriates Japan's racial chauvinists.
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