The Japanese imperial line may have Korean origins that the government suppresses

Evidence

But I have been informed by scholars of Japan that recent excavations of the earliest royal tombs suggest strongly that the family may originally have been – horrors! – Korean. The Japanese government has strongly discouraged further research on these sites. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 422

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to nationalist projects founded on invented primordial origins — same mechanism as the rest of this chapter’s ‘official nationalism’ argument.
• CANDY: A startling, tweetable fact: the imperial family may be Korean, and Japan suppresses the archaeology confirming it.