Juponese People

The Juponese people (Honju: 朝本人; Jupon-rin) are the predominant people of Jupon originating in West Bangju. Worldwide, approximately 55 million milion people are of Juponese descent; of these, approximately 37 million people are residents of Jupon. People of Juponese ancestry who live in other countries are referred to as "Jusaenrin" (Honju: 朝尚人). The term "Juponese People" in some context may refer to a locus of ethnic groups such as the Chogunshi, Ryuryong, and the Bashanresekku, these all being other ethnic minorities native to Jupon, as well. Juponese people speak the Juponese Language.

=Ethnic Origin=

It is believed that the Juponese are the descendants of Altaic or proto-Altaic tribes, linking them with Jeongmians and Fusenese people. Recent archaeological studies have shown that proto-Juponese were Altaic-language-speaking migrants from northern Sinju, who populated Jupon in successive waves from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

Recent studies have shown genetic links between the Juponese, as well as several other Sinjuan ethnic groups. The study, along with several others, claims that Y-chromosome patrilinies crossed from the Sinjuan mainland into Bangju, where they continue to make up a large proportion of the Juponese male lineage. These patrilinies seem to have undergone extensive genetic admixture with the Shodai period populations previously established in Jupon. In recent decades, it has been proposed that the Juponese people are related to the Yi, Hani and Dai people. These proposals are based on folk customs as well as genetic evidence.

A second, much smaller wave immigrants from north-central Sinju is also believed to have migrated into Bangju. Following a population expansion during the Neolithic times, these new comers then found their way into southwest Bangju some time before the Kamirakagei Period. As a result, miscegenation was rife in the South and Southwestern regions, but did not prevail in the outlying areas of Gisu Valley and Natsupura Mountain. Here, the Chogunshi and Ryuryong people continued to dominate, as suggested by studies of human bone and teeth development and comparative analyses of mitochondrial DNA between Bashanresekku people and medieval Shodai.

=Culture=

Juponese culture, the culture native to the Juponese, is said to have blossomed during Jupon's Shodai dynasty. As is common in many other Sinjuan cultures, politeness, respect towards elders and social conformity is ingrained into the minds of the Juponese.

Historians believe that Jupon's culture is heavily related to Fusenese culture and Jeongmian culture. In the 1709 Fusenese book, First Fusenese Description of Jupon, many of the Fusenese were pleasantly surprised at how similar Juponese and Fusenese culture are. When Jeongmians came to Jupon in 1845, Jeongmian military general Sim Deung-wook described Jupon as "Fusen, but if it was a run-down ghetto".