[Carol]

Well, at least before they made contact with Europeans. Maybe this will help:

" The second great push in Japanese history was contact with China from 200 AD onwards. From the Chinese, who demanded that Japan be a tribute state to China, the Japanese adopted forms of government, Buddhism, and writing. While Japanese culture ultimately derives from the immigrants of the third century BC, the bulk of Japanese culture is forged from Chinese materials—a fact that will drive an entire cultural revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as scholars attempt to reclaim original Japanese culture from its Chinese accretions "

I would like information about Japan around 200 AD, cause I like the Japanese architecture which has a bit of the Chinese architecture. BTW, what does AD mean?