Click here to go to the YouTube video A long, long time ago, Japan was connected to the continent. So the first Japanese probably crossed land bridges between Korea and Kyushu. But when sea levels rose at the end of the ice age more than 15,000 years ago, those land bridges disappeared. Japanese history started with the people who stayed on the Japanese archipelago. They lived by hunting and gathering things to eat. They hunted animals like deer and boars. They gathered seeds, plants, fish, and shellfish. Archeologists learn about these people by examining shell middens called Kaizuka in Japanese.  The Jomon people made the earliest pottery in the world.…