Loochooans are the indigenous peoples of the Loochoo Islands. Archeological evidence suggests Loochooans have inhabited Loochoo since around the year 30,000 B.C. Genetic studies suggest a close link between Loochooans and the Ainu, the indigenous peoples of Japan. 
Between 1000 B.C. - 300 A.D. the Yayoi peoples (migrants from the Asian continent) migrated to the Japanese Islands, intermixing with or pushing out the Ainu, who gradually moved farther and farther north.
​The Yayoi are the modern Japanese people, and are a separate people group from the Ainu.1

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  2. Kanzawa-Kiriyama, Hideaki; Kryukov, Kirill; Jinam, Timothy A; Hosomichi, Kazuyoshi; Saso, Aiko; Suwa, Gen; Ueda, Shintaroh; Yoneda, Minoru; Tajima, Atsushi. "A partial nuclear genome of the Jomons who lived 3000 years ago in Fukushima, Japan". Journal of Human Genetics. February 2017. 62 (2): 213–221.