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| | Association for Asia Research- Suggestions that the Japanese Emperor may be descended from mounted Korean conquerors |
 | | Earlier immigrants (like Sujin and Ojin) may indeed have come from other parts of Korea, but the horse trappings and the social structure of the late fifth and early sixth centuries, Kidder says, bear much closer resemblance to those in Silla than to those in either Paekche or Koguryo. |
| | By the time of Ojin and his line a century later, previous tribal groupings had given way to an administrative system capable of undertaking major public works projects, including irrigation canals, huge tombs, and large-scale importation of iron from southern Korea. |
| | Barnes concludes, however, that although the early Yamato kings had formed a small centralized state, and had pacified their neighbors around the Inland Sea, political unification of the whole of southern Japan was not begun until the sixth century, with Emperor Keitai and his successors. |
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