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What Traveled Across the Korea Strait Before Buddhism Reached Japan? - The Baekje Refugees Who Outlasted Their Kingdom | Sleepy Facts About History
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The history of early relations between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago is often reduced to a simple story of one culture influencing another. But the actual history is far more specific and interesting. The kingdom of Baekje, positioned on the southwestern coast of the Korean peninsula, faced two seas and used that maritime geography to build a sustained institutional network with the Yamato court. This was not a one-way transmission of civilization. It was a strategic…
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