Yamato nationality

Yamato nationality (Japanese: 大和民族/やまとみんぞく), also known as Wajin (和人/わじん), is the main ethnic group of the inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, they speak Japanese as their mother tongue and account for 98.5% of the current Japanese population.

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Overview

Yamato nationality is the name given to a group of people who have lived in the Japanese archipelago since before the Jomon period and who belonged to the Yamato Royalty (Yamato Imperial Court), which was formed during the Yayoi period, primarily from people based in Yamato (southeast of the Nara Basin).

In the late Yayoi period, as the Yamato kingdom expanded its power, it expanded its territory, assimilated neighboring countries and peoples (Hayato, Emishi, etc), and integrated with Han nationality and migrant peoples from the East Asia continent. "Yamato" which had been a regional name, became a broad designation for Japan and also became an ethnic name.

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Emperor Jimmu	Oda Nobunaga	Tokugawa Ieyasu	Minamoto no Yoritomo

Prince Shotoku	Saigo Takamori	Yukio Mishima	Matsuo Basho

Miyazaki Hayao	Kamisato Ayaka	Nakamori Akina	Ohtani Shohei

Hatsune Miku	Hakurei Reimu	Sunaookami Shiroko	Skadi