[maro]

Both Korean and Japanese are polysynthetic, agglutinative languages. Both English and Chinese are isolating, analytic languages. English may have started as a creole, but creolization may be a natural part in the life of any languages. The so-called Ural-Altaic languuage group is not necessarily the only way to group languages. Read Greenberg's magisterial works.

[muawiyah]

Agree. Of course Anglo-Saxon started out all the way to the left with a zillion prefixes and suffixes.

The most impressive evidence I have seen concerning the Jomon origins of the Japanese were the terre cotta figures of Jomon dancers put on exhibit at the Smithsonian several years back. I know individuals who look exactly like them.

Do not be misled by the Japanese armor of the Middle Ages. It clearly has a Mongol design.