Admixture of indigenous Jomon and Yayoi migrants on the Japanese Islands 1000 BC (Jinam et al 2012: 793)  

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... far as the population history of the Japanese islands is concerned, there is a relative agreement that Ainu and Ryukyuan people have shared genetic ancestry reflecting indigenous Jomon genes, while mainland Japanese people are the result of admixture between indigenous Jomon and immigrating Yayoi from the Korean peninsula (Hanihara 1991, Omoto & Saitou 1997, Jinam et al 2012. The admixture of indigenous Jomon people and Yayoi migrants on the Japanese Islands around 1000 BC is illustrated in Figure 7. The indigenous Jomon evolved from hunter-gatherers crossing paleolithic land bridges and coming from Central Asia, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. ...