Interesting perspective…November 24th, 2009 by Curzon |
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From a half-Japanese consultant based in Kyrgyzstan:
「キルギス人と日本人は元々同じ民族であったが、魚が好きな人は東に行って日本人になり、肉の好きな人は西に言ってキルギス人になった。」と言う話をよく聞きます。I often hear, “The Kyrgyz and Japanese were once the same people, but those who liked fish went east and those who liked meat went west.”
November 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I am throwing this in the same bucket as the 日ユ同祖論. Looking at Kyrgyzstan on a map, it doesn’t look like that kind of country that would have a huge population of fish lovers to begin with, so where did the twain originally reside, pray tell?
November 24th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Lake Baikal.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Peter, I would say that technically it’s closer to the Altaic Hypothesis.