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people in India away from Black
West.

Do you know that the first
Shogun of Japan was a Black
man by the name of Sakanouye
no Tamuramaro?
He was a warrior symbolized in
Japanese history as "a paragon of
military virtues". Sakanouye no
Tamuramaro helped the Japanese
fight the aborigine people of Japan
called Ainu. Ainu traditions tell of
"race of Black dwarfs" or
Koropokguru which inhabited Japan
before the coming of the Ainu.
In 791 a battle of the Ainu and
Japanese was taking place and the
Japanese Emperor Kwammu (782806) summoned Sakanouye no
Tamuramaro an "African Warrior".

This statue of Buddha is from an
Ancient Temple in Nara, Japan.
It is no question about the ethnicity
of this Ancient Buddha in Nara Japan.
It is incredulous to many to learn that
once there were Ancient Kingdoms
ruled by African people. It is evident
and clear by archaeological records
that the 1st recorded Buddha
Shakyamuni was a man of African
descent. It is amazing that people
look at this with disbelief and ask a
Priest if Shakyamuni Buddha was
Black. It does not take a rocket
scientist to look at the historical facts
and realize that there was a Black
Buddhist past.
It’s amazing to learn that there was
so much black presence in Asia!

After defeating the Ainu and
providing services throughout his
career in 797 he was named "Sei-i
Tai-Shogun", Tamuramaro founded a
shrine in the district of Izawa in
Mutsu dedicated to Hachiman in
which he hung up his bows and
arrows. Tamuramaro was the first
warrior statesmen of Japan. In later
ages he was revered by military men
as a model commander and as the
first recipient of the title Shogun.

There is even a Japanese
proverb, "For a Samurai to
be brave, he must have a bit
of Black blood"
One prehistoric and proto-historic
populations of Japan were Africoid
types, anthropologically described as
"Aoshima". The Aoshima appear to be