No joke.
Their language originated from Korea and China; Their prehistoric
technology originated from Korea; Their building style and
traditional costume, Kimono, originated from China; Their bushido
is an advanced and a very rigid form of Confuciuism; Their historic
technology came from the Dutch and Portugese; Their present day
technology came after the black ship incident, which again, mostly
imported and modified to suit their own needs; Even their first
emperor was a Chinese called "Xu2 Fu2", who went overseas under the
order of Qin Shihuang to search for the elixir for eternal life
(proven by scholars in the early 1990s)
The only original things they created is, probably, the katana.
Again, the shape, the skill and the know-how was originated from
elsewhere.
And also one last thing, the Japanese hate it when people called
them "Jap". I learnt it from gamefaqs. So, should I be the one
?