Much has been written with regard to the origin of the Japanese Tittle went on the subject. and, thus far, there has been very)
The popular idea is that the Japanese are descended from the Chinese.
Dr. Ku Hung-ming, for instance, always maintained that the Japanese were "the better type of Chinese." The tracing of the origin' of the Japanese to the Chinese sustained its first vulnerable blow: at! the hands of Sir Charles Eliot, a former Chancellor of the University of Hongkong, and afterwards British Ambassador to Tokyo. Then came Dr, A. Neville J. Whymant, an authority on Oriental and Poly-ne sian languages, who pointed out that the Japanese belong to the great Polynesian race and are far; more closely related to the Maoris, the Kanakes and the Malays, The latest contribution to this subject is from the pen of Dr. Takeshi Kitasato, who, after a visit to the Philippines, discovered that Tagalog, the native tongue of those inhabiting the island of Luzon, was basically related to Japanese. He further stated that Tagalog is a older tongue than Japanese and, perhaps, is the oldest extant tongue spoken in the Far East. With regard to the origin of the Japanese, however, Dr. Kitasato differs from, others. "He declares that his investigations have led him to believe] that the Japanese originally came from India. They were, probably, says, the first Indian colonists and adventurers who spread through the 'Malay States, on to the Dutch East Indian archipelago, to the islands now known as the' Philippines and then to Formosa and Japan. Other Indians also migrated to the Far} East by land, coming over the bleak. wastes of Mongolia into China Proper and Korea. Old Japanese) script, he says, is a mixture Sanskrit, Hindustani, Chinese and Korean and he explains this as due across these
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