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It currently appears that the earliest pottery in the world may have been made in Japan, before the start of the Jōmon period.

In 1998 a number of small fragments were found at the Odai Yamamoto I site, which have been dated to the 14th Millenium BC.

Archaeologist Junko Habu claims that " The majority of Japanese scholars believed, and still believe, that pottery production was first invented in mainland Asia and subsequently introduced into the Japanese archipelago ," and explains that " A series of excavations in the Amur River Basin in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that pottery in this region may be as old as, if not older than, Fukui Cave pottery ", which dates to around 10, 700 and was found in 1960.