The Hata Clan Came form Ancient Israel?

　　　　 One of these unique theories is that the Hata clan would have been a part of the tribes of Israel who had dispersed since the captivity of Israel by Assyria in B.C. 8^th century and in the Diaspora of Judah in B.C. 6^th century. They take notice of the art of sericulture that the Hata clan brought into Japan by way of the Silk Road, on which a smart number of the tribes of Israel had settled, and of the family crests, a symbol of a ship having been used by posterities of the Hata clan. And particularly Zebulon, who was one of the ten tribes of Israel, also had used a symbol of a ship as their crest[i]. 

Japan history politics

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[i] Rabbi Marvin Tokayer,Nihhon Yudaya no Huuinn no Kodaisi, Tokuma-Shoten, Tokyo, 1999, pp. 263-265.