For this reason, scholars in prewar Japan took the jade magatama as proof of the sphere of influence of Wa (Japan), but post-war archaeologists, at one time, advocated a new interpretation that they had been introduced to Japan from Korea.
このことから、戦前の日本の考古学者は、倭国の勢力範囲を示すモノと解釈していたが、戦後の学者は一時、朝鮮から日本への伝来と新解釈を提唱していた。