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Hardly any reason to return to the emperor. To quote Wikipedia if I may:

> The Records of the Grand Historian says he came to a place with "flat plains and wide swamps" (平原廣澤) and proclaimed himself king, never to return.

> Ancient scholars credited Xu Fu for being the founding father, and catalyst of the development of ancient Japanese society.

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Except that genetically there is no connection between China and Japan...

Lol WTF are you talking about? If you diff Chinese and Japanese DNA (typical population) there is a hell of a lot less than if you were to do the same with a European or African genetics. Of course Japanese and Chinese genetics overlap a lot; so of course they're related, but distinct genetic groups.

Racial stereotyping aside, genetic and anthropological studies show no connection between the mainline populations of Japan and China. They derive from different migrations into asia.

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