history: I am extremely interested in the history of Japan.  Do you know anything about Japan? Have you ever been there or want to visit in the future?
knowledge: The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.
response: I have never been to Japan, but I know that the first people to inhabit the Japanese archipelago did so in prehistoric times.
history: I am extremely interested in the history of Japan.  Do you know anything about Japan? Have you ever been there or want to visit in the future?
I have never been to Japan, but I know that the first people to inhabit the Japanese archipelago did so in prehistoric times.
Cool. I am also interested in prehistory.  Would you say they were first there in the Paleolithic, Mesozoic, or neolithic era?  Where did they come from before they were in Japan?
knowledge: It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools, probably by ''Homo habilis'' initially, 2.6 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene around 10,000 BP.
response: Those are questions I can't answer. What I can tell you is that the first stone tools were probably used by "Homo habilis"
history: I am extremely interested in the history of Japan.  Do you know anything about Japan? Have you ever been there or want to visit in the future?
I have never been to Japan, but I know that the first people to inhabit the Japanese archipelago did so in prehistoric times.
Cool. I am also interested in prehistory.  Would you say they were first there in the Paleolithic, Mesozoic, or neolithic era?  Where did they come from before they were in Japan?
Those are questions I can't answer. What I can tell you is that the first stone tools were probably used by "Homo habilis"
Ok, I can accept that answer.  So the first Japanese were probably hunter gatherers who moved from place to place in search of food.  I guess they found rice there. Is rice native to Japan?
knowledge: Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one-fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans.
response: I am really not sure. However, I know it's the most important grain for nutrition and calories, and that over 20 percent of calories consumed around the world come from rice
history: I am extremely interested in the history of Japan.  Do you know anything about Japan? Have you ever been there or want to visit in the future?
I have never been to Japan, but I know that the first people to inhabit the Japanese archipelago did so in prehistoric times.
Cool. I am also interested in prehistory.  Would you say they were first there in the Paleolithic, Mesozoic, or neolithic era?  Where did they come from before they were in Japan?
Those are questions I can't answer. What I can tell you is that the first stone tools were probably used by "Homo habilis"
Ok, I can accept that answer.  So the first Japanese were probably hunter gatherers who moved from place to place in search of food.  I guess they found rice there. Is rice native to Japan?
I am really not sure. However, I know it's the most important grain for nutrition and calories, and that over 20 percent of calories consumed around the world come from rice
One more question. Since they moved to Japan, and Japan is an island, they must have had boats or rafts.  Do you believe that cave men in the Paleolithic era had this technology? Sorry to be so inquisitive, but this topic is interesting and you seem knowledgeable.
knowledge: The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.
response: I don't really have the knowledge to answer that. I can only tell you that the Japanese archipelago was first inhabited during prehistoric times.
history: I am extremely interested in the history of Japan.  Do you know anything about Japan? Have you ever been there or want to visit in the future?
I have never been to Japan, but I know that the first people to inhabit the Japanese archipelago did so in prehistoric times.
Cool. I am also interested in prehistory.  Would you say they were first there in the Paleolithic, Mesozoic, or neolithic era?  Where did they come from before they were in Japan?
Those are questions I can't answer. What I can tell you is that the first stone tools were probably used by "Homo habilis"
Ok, I can accept that answer.  So the first Japanese were probably hunter gatherers who moved from place to place in search of food.  I guess they found rice there. Is rice native to Japan?
I am really not sure. However, I know it's the most important grain for nutrition and calories, and that over 20 percent of calories consumed around the world come from rice
One more question. Since they moved to Japan, and Japan is an island, they must have had boats or rafts.  Do you believe that cave men in the Paleolithic era had this technology? Sorry to be so inquisitive, but this topic is interesting and you seem knowledgeable.
I don't really have the knowledge to answer that. I can only tell you that the Japanese archipelago was first inhabited during prehistoric times.
Yes, it seems self evident, doesn't it.  So would you ever take a vacation to Japan, or is the cultural and linguistic divide too great?  I am assuming here that you don't speak Japanese .
knowledge: The origin of speech refers to the more general problem of the origin of language in the context of the physiological development of the human speech organs such as the tongue, lips and vocal organs used to produce phonological units in all human languages.
response: I don't have an answer to that. Since you mentioned language, did you know that all human languages use the lips, tongue, and vocal organs to produce phonological units?