<P> In theater, Noh is a traditional, spare dramatic form that developed in tandem with kyōgen farce . In stark contrast to the restrained refinement of noh, kabuki, an "explosion of color", uses every possible stage trick for dramatic effect . Plays include sensational events such as suicides, and many such works were performed in both kabuki and bunraku puppet theaters . </P> <P> Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has absorbed elements of Western culture and gave it a "Japanese" feel or modification into it . Its modern decorative, practical and performing arts works span a spectrum ranging from the traditions of Japan to purely Western modes . Products of popular culture, including J - pop, J - rock, manga and anime have found audiences and fans around the world . </P> <P> Arai Hakuseki, who knew in the 18th century that there were stone tools in Japan, suggested that there was Shukushin in ancient Japan . After him, Philipp Franz von Siebold claimed that indigenous Japanese were Ainu people . Iha Fuyū suggested that Japanese and Ryukyuan people have the same ethnic origin, based on his 1906 research of the Ryukyuan languages . In the Taishō period, Torii Ryūzō claimed that Yamato people used Yayoi pottery and Ainu used Jōmon pottery . </P> <P> A common origin of Japanese has been proposed by a number of scholars since Arai Hakuseki first brought up the theory and Fujii Sadamoto, a pioneer of modern archeology in Japan, also treated the issue in 1781 . But after the end of World War II, Kotondo Hasebe and Hisashi Suzuki claimed that the origin of Japanese people was not the newcomers in the Yayoi period (300 BCE--300 CE) but the people in the Jōmon period . </P>

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