Unit 3 of History No One Taught You's Asian History and Culture series dives into Japan's ancient origins, from the world's oldest pottery makers to the elegant Heian court. Explore the Jomon hunter-gatherers, Yayoi agricultural revolution, divine myths in the Kojiki, and the refined aristocratic world of The Tale of Genji. This episode uncovers the foundations of Japan's transformation from feudal islands to a modern nation.

• Jomon culture: World's oldest pottery (14,000 BCE), cord-marked designs, shell mounds, and egalitarian foraging societies.
• Yayoi migrants: Wet rice farming, metallurgy from Korea/China, genetic mixing with Jomon, and rise of social hierarchies.
• Mythological origins: Izanagi, Izanami, Amaterasu, Ninigi, and Emperor Jimmu in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki as p ...