Fascinating question but I can answer.
In Japan itself today, you can find individuals walking around who have natural brown or reddish brown hair. The Japanese attribute this to the intermixing of some of the Ainu people from Hokkaido with the Japanese a thousand years ago.
When the Japanese first colonized the Japan islands just over two millennium ago, they discovered they were not first. The northernmost island, Hokkaido, were already sparsely populated by a late Neolithic, tribal, aboriginal people, called, 'Ainu', by the Japanese. The Ainu were reportedly in northernmost Honshu as well. But where the Ainu originated remains an archeological and anthropological mystery today. The Ainu may have followed the same migratory path as the aborigines in Australia.
The early Japanese described the Ainu as very hairy people, whose hair was reddish brown. Japanese woodcut block drawings from close to that time period show Ainu emissaries visiting the Japanese royal court, having long bushy beards. The Ainu were noted to be fierce tribal warriors skilled with the bow. In the early Japanese history there was conflict between the Japanese settlers and the Ainu tribes. In fact, the inability of the Japanese royal court to deal with Ainu military excursions into Japanese territory led the emergence of the samurai clans.
It's difficult to describe what an original Ainu person looked like because over time the Ainu died out, through long-term conflict with the Japanese and some intermingling with the Japanese which today manifests with reddish brown-haired Japanese people today.
P.S. Arab traders, merchants, and seamen had a seaport town in southeast, coastal Korea over one thousand years ago. That is why sometimes individual Korean people are encountered with very wavy, almost curly black hair instead of the straight hair typical of northeastern Asians.
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