About 290 B.C. settlements were founded on the main islands of Japan by Mongols. They drove north large numbers of the Ainos, and absorbed the more peaceable into their own population. This invasion was succeeded by formidable ingressions of the “black savages” of Japanese history; probably Malay tribes from Papua, New Guinea, or Dyacks from Borneo and the adjoining lands. It would seem that these carious tribes established colonies and, intermarrying with the Ainos and Mongol invaders, became the progenitors of the present Japanese.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
