Jomon

The team comprising four Japanese and six fishermen from the Indonesian Mandar tribe started their journey on April 30 on the sailboats called Jomon and Pakur.

Daily Express Newspaper Online 2009

I think the jury is still out on the Jomon/Yayoi/Ainu genetic legacy on modern Japanese though.

Pressure Peers (link roundup) 2009

Like Kennewick Man who belonged to the Jomon people, the predecessors of the Ainu, the Ürümqi mummies have been used for politics: the Uyghur have adopted them as symbols in their struggle for independence, the Chinese have tried to suppress them by neglect and red tape in the way of scholars who want to analyze them in more detail.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

Like Kennewick Man who belonged to the Jomon people, the predecessors of the Ainu, the Ürümqi mummies have been used for politics: the Uyghur have adopted them as symbols in their struggle for independence, the Chinese have tried to suppress them by neglect and red tape in the way of scholars who want to analyze them in more detail.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

Like Kennewick Man who belonged to the Jomon people, the predecessors of the Ainu, the Ürümqi mummies have been used for politics: the Uyghur have adopted them as symbols in their struggle for independence, the Chinese have tried to suppress them by neglect and red tape in the way of scholars who want to analyze them in more detail.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

In Japan whaling has been practiced since the Jomon Era, around 8000 years ago and some ruins found in Iki City of Nagasaki Prefecture brought to light evidence of continued whaling in the Yayoi Era.

Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting? 2009

Like Kennewick Man who belonged to the Jomon people, the predecessors of the Ainu, the Ürümqi mummies have been used for politics: the Uyghur have adopted them as symbols in their struggle for independence, the Chinese have tried to suppress them by neglect and red tape in the way of scholars who want to analyze them in more detail.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

The estimate of the total population of Jomon Japan at its peak is 250,000 — trivial, of course, compared with today, but impressive for hunter-gatherers.

Japanese Roots « Isegoria 2008

Archeologists studying Jomon hunter-gatherers have found not only hard-to-carry pottery (including pieces up to three feet tall) but also heavy stone tools, remains of substantial houses that show signs of repair, big village sites of 50 or more dwellings, and cemeteries — all further evidence that the Jomon people were sedentary rather than nomadic.

Japanese Roots « Isegoria 2008

Anyway, the proto-Japanese Jomon people lived an interesting lifestyle — as hunter-gatherers, but not as nomads:

Japanese Roots « Isegoria 2008