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by Kaminari-san on October 23rd, 2009
I think the often-stated: "Japanese look like Chinese" is nothing more than a myth. People acquainted with both countries or cultures would immediately notice that they are two different races. By Chinese, I mean Han Chinese here.
Probably the only "Chinese" groups that do have resemblance to the Japanese in terms of features, would probably be the Turkic-Mongolian- Manchurian groups who are recognized as Ethnic Minorities in People's Republic of China who are after all, members of the Ural-Altaic Language of which Japanese and Korean are thought to be likely members of anyway. Put it this way, one would readily notice the physical or facial-features similarity of a Uighur person with a Japanese person,than one would with a Chinese.
Yes- the Japanese did borrow a lot from China in terms of culture and one of the most visible and enduring aspect of this borrowing would have to be the Chinese Characters KANJI (HANZI as it is pronounced in Mandarin).BUT that doesn't make the Japanese racially Chinese. The modern Turkish and Malay-Indonesian languages are written in the Latin/ Roman script but that does not make these languages Indo-European.
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