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155: 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 31: 279:
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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may have been predominantly 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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The old 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
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as a 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
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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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Pankaj Mohan (2016). "The 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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in the 6th century. That was part of the Japanese imagery for centuries, envisioning Japanese supremacy and cultural superiority over Korea's
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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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The first serious hypothesis on the meaning of Mimana comes from Japanese scholars. Based on their interpretation of
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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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Vovin, Alexander (2013). "From Koguryo to Tamna: Slowly riding to the South with speakers of Proto-Korean".
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Lee, Chong-sik. "History and politics in Japanese-Korean relations: The textbook controversy and beyond."
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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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according to the Korean pronunciation, is the name used primarily in the 8th-century Japanese text
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Diplomacy and ideology in Japanese-Korean relations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth Century
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policy centered on China, and it was also one of the grounds for portraying the 20th-century
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Janhunen, Juha (2010). "RECONSTRUCTING THE LANGUAGE MAP OF PREHISTORICAL NORTHEAST ASIA".
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Concerning the Mimana Problem from the Point of View of Japanese History: A Research
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A Concise History of Korea: From The Neolithic Period Through The Nineteenth Century
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Yukiko Ishikawa and Masahiko Takekoshi, "History gap still hard to bridge",
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State Formation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
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Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945
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The Postwar Developments of Japanese Studies in the United States
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Grayson, James H. "Mimana, A Problem in Korean Historiography."
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expelled or assimilated by Koreanic speakers from the north.
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state, which was allied with Yamato Japan and whose leaders
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languages" (now extinct), while initially co-existing with
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Mimana kōbō-shi: History of the rise and fall of Mimana
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relics, as well as in several Korean texts, including
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Index

Imna

Chinese
Japanese
pinyin
Korean
Nihon Shoki
Gaya confederacy
East Asian
historiography
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin Chinese
Nihongi
Book of Song
State of Wa
epigraphic
Samguk Sagi
Relations between Kaya and ancient Japan

Empress Jingū
Korean Peninsula
Nihongi
Korean Peninsula
Empress Jingū
Gaya
Silla
Sadae
Japanese occupation of Korea
Suematsu Yasukazu

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