Two Origins of Japanese People and Language

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Nicholas Wade, Finding on Finding on Dialects Casts New Light on the Origins of the Japanese People. New York Times, May 4, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html?scp=1&sq=japan%20dialects&st=cse
(Japanese "language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, and not from the hunter-gatherers who first inhabited the islands some 30,000 years ago")

My comment:
(a)
(i) Jōmon period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period
(縄文時代; 14,000 BC-300 BCE; The term jōmon means "cord-patterned" in Japanese. This refers to the pottery style characteristic of the Jōmon culture, and which has markings made using sticks with cords wrapped around them. Recent Y-DNA haplotype testing has found that the Jōmon are the genetic ancestors of the Ainu and partly of modern Japanese people.[3])

Reference 3's author, Yutaka NAKAHORI 中堀 豊, published a paper:
Jin HJ et al, Y-chromosomal DNA haplogroups and their implications for the dual origins of the Koreans. Human Genetics, 114: 27-35 (2003)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14505036

(ii) See photo 1 for Jomon vase.
(b) Yayoi period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_period
(弥生時代; named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era)
(c) Toshikazu HASEGAWA  長谷川 寿一
(d) "Bayesian refers to methods in probability and statistics named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes (ca. 1702–1761[; English])."
Bayesian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian
(e) Old Japanese 古代日本語
Middle Japanese 中世日本語
(f) The paper:
Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa, Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages. Proc. R. Soc. B, published online before print May 4, 2011, doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0518
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/05/04/rspb.2011.0518.abstract?sid=95e81240-4ff8-4923-b538-e0fbb973a906
(g) National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
(大学共同利用機関法人 人間文化研究機構) 国立国語研究所
http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/

(h) The NYT report is translated into Chinese:

译言网| 方言新发现为日本人起源提供了新证据. May 4, 2011.
http://article.yeeyan.org/view/208966/191944

※ 修改:．choi 于 May  4 13:49:51 修改本文．[FROM: 129.10.0.0]