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Around 300 BC, the Yayoi people began migrating from continental Asia to the Japanese islands, co-mingling with the native Jomon inhabitants. Before the arrival of the Yayoi, the indigenous villagers lived a semi-sedentary lifestyle subsisting mainly through...
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