Original sentence: " Of the Black people of early Japan, the most picturesque single figure was Sakanouye no Tamuramaro, a warrior symbolized in Japanese history as a "paragon of military virtues," and a man who has captured the attention of some of the most distinguished scholars of twentieth century America." While discussing the African presence in early Asia, Chamberlain stated in an exceptionally frank and matter of fact manner:."And we can cross the whole of Asia and find the Negro again, for when, in far-off Japan, the ancestors of the modern Japanese were making their way northward against the Ainu, the aborigines of that country, the leader of their armies was Sakanouye Tamuramaro, a famous general and a Negro."The oldest Stone Age hut in Japan has been unearthed near Osaka....Archeologists date the hut to about 22,000 years ago and say it resembles the dugouts of African bushmen, according to Wazuo Hirose of Osaka Prefectural of Education's cultural division.An anthropologist, Chamberlain was born in Kenninghall, Norfolk, England, and was brought to America as a child.In April 1911 the Journal of Race Development published an essay by Chamberlain entitled "The Contribution of the Negro to Human Civilization.Japanese people are descendants from Black people.Meaningful indications of an African presence in ancient Japan have been unearthed from the most remote ages of the Japanese past.Perhaps the first such scholar to make note of Tamuramaro was Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1865-1914).To begin with, and as a significant example, a February 15, 1986 report carried by the Associated Press, chronicled that:.`Other homes, almost as old, have been found before, but this discovery is significant because the shape is cleaner, better preserved' and is similar to the Africans' dugouts