history of japan

The first human inhabitation in the Japanese archipelago [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_archipelago] has been traced to prehistoric times [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Paleolithic] around 30,000 BCE. The Jōmon period [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period], named after its cord-marked pottery [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord-marked_pottery], was followed by the Yayoi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_period] people [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_people] in the first millennium BCE when new inventions were introduced from Asia. During this period, the first known written reference to Japan was recorded in the Chinese Book of Han [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Han] in the first century CE. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app [https://anchor.fm/app]