Kadokawa Manga gakushu series: Nihon no rekishi (History of Japan) 1

[Machine Translation] More than 30,000 years ago, humans migrated from the continent to the land-locked Japanese archipelago, chasing mammoths and Naumann elephants. At the end of the Jomon Period, when rice cultivation began, a gap between rich and poor emerged, and in the Yayoi Period, wars between small countries broke out. Eventually, some, such as Himiko of Yamataikoku, sent envoys to China to have their kingship recognized. This volume looks at the history of the Japanese archipelago from the Paleolithic Age to the establishment of the Yamato regime.

3万数千年前、マンモスやナウマン象を追いかけて、大陸から陸続きだった日本列島に人類が移動してきました。縄文時代の末期、稲の栽培が始まると貧富の差が生まれ、弥生時代には小さな国同士の戦争も起こります。やがて邪馬台国の卑弥呼のように、中国に使者を送って王の地位を認めてもらう者が出てきました。本巻では、旧石器時代から大和政権の成立までの日本列島の歴史を見ていきます。