Moral Innovators’ Perspective on Japan – Part 1, Origins

Moral Innovators believe that over 90% of humanity are Monotheists (Christians and Muslims), Henotheists (Indians) and Atheists (Chinese).  A large portion of the remaining human community is the 128 million Japanese who are devoted polytheists and value obedience higher than morality.

If you read the origins of the Japanese people, you can get as far as ainu people to be the first “indigenous Japanese” with little reference to where ainu people come from.  There is reference to Jomon that dates back about 15,000 years, and the oldest artifact is about 24,000 years old.  What is blatantly clear but explicitly ignored are the facts that:

1. 24,000 years ago, there were foot bridges from Asia to the Americas, so Japan was not an island. Japan was part of mainland Asia at that time.  The last ice age ended about 20,000 years ago, when sea level increased by about 400 feet.  In geological terms, this was a sudden rise in sea level that broke the Asia foot bridges to the Americas.  The higher sea level also created the Japanese islands.
2. Japanese do not like to confirm their Chinese origins:  Chinese used fire to cook food in caves 1 million years ago, Peking Men were 300,000 to 750,000 years old.  Instead, Japanese are exploring the Altai mountain region where 40,000 year-old Denisova hominid have been found.  Some Koreans believe the Chinese emperors recruited the people from Altai to help and protect the Korean peninsula, and the most popular name in Korea, Kim, originated from the Altai region.  With what we know today, it is very realistic that children of the Peking Men traveled to Altai Mountains to create human communities that eventually ventured north east toward the Americas.  Some of them turned south earlier and reached northern Japan.  It is also realistic that the Koreans walked past the foot bridges to reach southern Japan as the first Japanese.

Moral Innovators support the pursuit of knowledge, and the Japanese efforts to pursue their origins in places like Altai Mountains should be encouraged.  Even if the Japanese found evidence of their ancestry in Altai Mountains which some Koreans already believe, there is no getting around their Chinese origins.

Part 2 introduces a key attribute of the Japanese – devotion of the Japanese to follow the global leader – China between 1,000 to 2,000 years ago, and USA today.