Yamato people

East Asian ethnic group

The Yamato (大和民族, Yamato minzoku; lit. 'Yamato ethnicity') or Wajin (和人 / 倭人; lit. 'Wa people'), also known as the Japanese, are an East Asian ethnic group that comprises over 98% of the population of Japan. Genetic and anthropometric studies have shown that the Yamato people predominantly descend from the Yayoi people, who migrated to Japan from the continent (probably the Korean Peninsula) beginning during the 1st millennium BC, with some ancestry from the indigenous Jōmon people who had inhabited the Japanese archipelago for millennia prior. It can also refer to the first people that settled in Yamato Province (modern-day Nara Prefecture).

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