How did they get to Hokkaido?

Question

i have heard the natives on Hokkaido are anglos, not of oriental origin. If true, doeas anyone have a theory as to how they got there?

Answer 1

No they are not "anglo".

They do look more "causcasian" than other Japanese.

This is probably because the Ainus' ancestors came over during or at the end of the last ice age and had ancestors who came from some Eurasian group before the "Classic Mongoloid" phenotype had fully developed.

They got to Hokkaido by a combination of land bridges island jumping and canoes when the sea levels were much lower.

Answer 2

They are 'Ainu' related people.

They do look very Caucasian. The original population that went East from central Eurasia had a mix of Caucasian and Mongoloid features. These Hokkaido/Ainu sometimes have blue or grey eyes, reddish and brown hair (that is Caucasian in cross section) and a nearly Caucasian skull shape.

The current thinking is that the current Asian mongoloid population is a pretty recent development, and they expanded very recently and rapidly into Asia. The oldest classically Mongoloid shaped skull found in Asia is only about 7,000 years old, so the first people in Asia seem to be more European looking, but got overwhelmed by the expanding Mongoloids (quite possibly from the Siberia area originally).

When they did DNA tests on these Japanese populations they turned out to be genetically Asian, so they aren't anymore closely related to Europeans than the normal Korean descended Japanese.

Answer 3

They are not anglos, they are Ainu aboriginal people, possibly the original inhabitants of Northern Japan, Southern Alaska, and the Northwest coast of North America.

Answer 4

They are bearded etc.Actually several Caucasian skulls were found in China not long ago,blond and red hair that preexisted the local population (same thing in Main or Massachusetts) of course it was quickly hushed up by both parties in order to avoid any controversial ancestral claims because of the fervent rewriting of history of late.China/migration from Europe-N. America probably by boat.It also may have some connection to the Atlantis Myth,but its' all speculation and discouraged by the new historians.