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218:, which would have been one of many during the Yayoi period (Hanihara Kazurō has suggested that the annual immigrant influx to the Japanese Archipelago from the Asian mainland during the Yayoi period ranged from 350 to 3,000). In 2010, a joint study group of historians sponsored by the governments of Japan and South Korea agreed that Gaya had never been militarily colonized by ancient Japan.
205:, who proposed in 1949 that Mimana was a Japanese colony on the Korean Peninsula that existed from the 3rd to the 6th centuries. The theory has lost popularity since the 1970s, largely because of the complete lack of archeological evidence that such a settlement would have produced, the fact that a centralized Japanese state with power projection capability did not exist at that time (the
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in the 7th century. In that version, Mimana would refer to Baekje, or some poorly-understood fragment of that state, which fought against Gaya. The fifth theory, which Rurarz describes as a "compromise version of recent young
Japanese and Korean scholars" argues that there never was a Mimana state as
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Japonic-speaking before Peninsular Japonic was supplanted by Koreanic. This would suggest that, rather than the Japonic speakers crossing the sea from the Japanese Archipelago to occupy a part of the southern Korean Peninsula, the existing Peninsular Japonic speakers were
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Japanese interpretation has been disputed by Korean scholars. At first, they simply chose to ignore it, but more recently, their position has been bolstered as continuing archeological excavations on the Korean Peninsula have failed to produce any evidence supporting the hypothesis. Korean
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in which horse riders from the Korean
Peninsula are hypothesized to have successfully invaded Japan and to have introduced horses, not native to the islands, to Japan. A third theory has been proposed by the Japanese scholar
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from the north when speakers of these languages arrived in the southern Korean
Peninsula, were eventually supplanted or replaced by the Koreanic languages with assimilation over time. Janhunen also suggests that early
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should be understood as referring only to the
Japanese Islands and Jingū's conquest a description of a migration to a land in the Japanese Archipelago, not the Korean Peninsula. That is related to the so-called
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is describing (or misinterpreting, intentionally or not) an event that had occurred centuries before its composition in which Jingū's conquest is a dramatized and politicized version of her immigration to the
88:." Seth notes that the very existence of Mimana is still disputed.However, the hypothesis that Imna was a Japanese colonial ruling institution is being denied by the historical academia in Korea and Japan.
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Japanese return to lands that they had once controlled. That early Japanese view has also been often reproduced in old Western works. One of the main proponents of the theory was the Japanese scholar
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historians generally interpret the claim about a
Japanese colony in Korea as nationalistic colonial historiography, which has been accepted by some historians. Korean scholar
779:... there are strong indications that the neighbouring Baekje state (in the southwest) was predominantly Japonic-speaking until it was linguistically Koreanized.
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to Japan. That theory suggests Mimana to have been a diplomatic embassy and Jingū's conquest as a dramatization of efforts undertaken to establish that embassy.
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Rurarz describes five main theories on Mimana, the first of which was proposed by
Suematsu. A second theory on Mimana was proposed by the North Korean scholar
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Controversy over the Ancient Korean State of Gaya: A Fresh Look at the Korea–Japan History War". In Michael Lewis (ed.).
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Southern Korea around the time of the Gaya confederacy. This region has been described as the most likely location of Mimana
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and that the Mimana state was an enclave of that group. A fourth theory was put forward by the South Korean scholar
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The topic of Mimana, such as its portrayal in Japanese textbooks, is still one of the controversies affecting
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such, and the term refers to Japanese diplomatic envoys active in the Korean Peninsula in that era.
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