In Asia, the Mongolian race (yellow race) is divided into three branches:

(1) Tungusic people in North Asia and Northeast Asia

(2) Malays in Southeast Asia and Lingnan, China.

(3) the transitional race between the two-the Far East race (that is, we China people)

In terms of ethnic composition, more than 60% of Japanese descendants are Tungusic, and the rest are a mixture of Malay descendants and China descendants.

People in northern China (the Han nationality area north of Nanling) are almost all of pure China descent with high purity, but occasionally there is a mixture of China descent and Tunguska descent; Lingnan people (south of Nanling, that is, Guangdong, Guangxi, southern Hunan, southern Jiangxi and southern Fujian) are of mixed Malay descent, with a high degree of mixing. So this is why northerners and southerners are usually different in appearance and physique.

In a word, there are still some differences in appearance between China and Japanese due to their different lineages.

If we insist on a result, the Japanese are more like northerners in China in appearance.