Lost 10 tribes of Israel & Japnese Culture

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Apostate 10 tribes of ancient Israel

It seems that the ancient 10 tribes of Israel came to Japan, and became the first emperor family in Japan.

The Ten tribes of Israel belonged to Samaria, the Northern Kingdom of Israel. They were Reuben, Gad, Ephraim, Issachar, Zevulun, Naphtali, Asher, Dan, Simeon, and Manasseh. While the other tribes belonged to the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
In the 8th century B.C.E., the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the army of Assyrian empire, and the Ten Tribes of Israel was led captive and compelled to march to the land of Assyria. They did not come back to the land of Israel. They are so called "the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel."

Josephus Wrote About the Lost Tribes of Israel

Where was the exact place of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel to be carried captive in Assyrian Empire? The Bible records:
"the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." (2 Kings 18:11)
These places are located in today's northern Iraq or Northwest Iran called Kurdistan. The Ten Tribes of Israel were firstly compelled to emigrate there, and this is also a starting point of our research.
There is a Jew named Josephus Flavius, a very reliable historian who lived in the first century C.E.. In his book of history, there is a description about whereabouts of the Ten Tribes:
"...the Ten Tribes who are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, whose numbers cannot be estimated." (Antiquities 11:2)
Josephus wrote that in the first century C.E., the Ten Tribes of Israel lived as an immense multitude beyond Euphrates River. This may mean that some of them lived in the close area east of Euphrates River and others moved to a place far beyond east of the Euphrates.

It is believed that these are the origins of the Yamato people, who established a Yamato State - the first organized Japanese state. The dates cited here conform to the dates of the actual Yamato state, which was established in A.D. 250. Yamato is one of the oldest names of Japan. The phonetic word has no meaning in Japanese; but, in Hebrew, Yamato is a combination of: Yahaweh (God) and Umato (people). In other words, Yamato means "the people of God" or "God's nation!" However, they were not the only stream of Hebrew people to enter Japan in the period of its ancient history. It is believed that the Hada or Hata people, who immigrated to Japan during the Yamato period, are also of Hebrew origin.

The name "Yamato," which according to the Nihon-Shoki was given to the ancient land of the Japanese people at an early stage of the Creation, has no clearly defined meaning in Japanese.
In Hebrew-Aramaic, however, the two words "Ya-umato," pronounced "Wa-'mato," mean "God's people," the traditional epithet of the Hebrews in the Bible (Ya=God; umato=people). And since lands usually bear the names of the people who dwell in them, it is quite possible that when the ancient Japanese first came to their islands, they used the name Yamato to designate part of their new territory. It is interesting to note here that the Jpanese sometimes refer to their country as "The Kingdom of Sumera" (Sumera-Mikuni), which bears a striking resemblance to the name "kingdom of Samaria" - the ancient homeland of the Ten Tribes of Israel!

First Japanese emperor

The first Japanese Emperor Jinmu
18 February 660 BC – 9 April 585 BC (traditional)

The formal name for the Japanese first Emperor Jinmu is called in Kojiki or in Nihon-shoki:
"Kamu-yamato-iware-biko-sumera-mikoto"

This "kamu-yamato-...." has no satisfactory meaning if we interpret it as Japanese, but Joseph Eidelberg interpreted it as Hebrew. If we think of slight corruption and interpret it as Hebrew, it would be:
"The founder of the Hebrew nation of Yahweh, the noble (first born) of Samaria his kingdom."

This is not necessarily to mean that Jinmu himself was really the founder of the Hebrew nation, but rather, it may mean that the memory of the royal line of the Hebrew nation coming to Japan was included in the legend of the Japanese first Emperor Jinmu. Did the royal line of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel came to Japan? It is a grand mystery.



Yuutarou Yano was an elite officer and passionate Shintoist. He thought that the key to know the truth about the emperor of Japan exists in the mirror of Yata at Ise-jingu where the Japanese emperor's Shito shrine.

Yano was able to look at the mirror, and carefully copied the pattern of the back of the mirror.

It shows the letters on it which looked ancient and mysterious, especially the letters inside the central circle looked somewhat Hebrew.

It can be read like Light of Yahweh in Hebrew.
The four letters or consonants from right to left are
Yod, Shin, Vav, Ayin (Y, SH, OO, A).

Tetragrammaton Yod, He, Waw, He (Y, H, W, H)
read from the right to the left


There is a culture in Japan to worship God of mountain.
They have a custom to cry out loud toward mountain to get an echo called Yamabiko.
The word they cry is "Yaho-," without being aware of the meaning.

Similarities in customs between Israel and Japan



Jews carried the ark of the covenant, Japanese carries the Mikoshi which is the same portable temple like the ark of the covenant.



Shinto priests wear jacket with fringe of garment like tzizit, Jewish border tassel.


The ancient Japanese relics called Haniwa show the ancient Japanese people's hair style called Mizura which hair comes down under his cap and hangs in front of both ears with some curling.
It was unique to Japan, not the one which came from the cultures of China or Korea.

Is it a mere coincidence that this resembles Jewish "peyot" (payot) very much, which is also a hair style of hanging the hair in front of the ears long with some curling (photo right)? "Peyot" is a unique hair style for Jews and the origin is very old. Leviticus 19:27 of the Bible mentions: "'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head."





There exist quit convincing evidences that the ancient Israelites reached Japan and became influential standing to Japanese culture.


Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory


The Mystery of Jews in Japan

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