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Japan is still a fairly insular nation, especially in regards to the topic of history. During the Meiji restoration they basically rewrote their own history, which also kinda requires you to ignore or reshape everyone else's history to suit your perspective. As a result, I doubt world history is very well covered in their public education.
I could also imagine the missionaries that were coming over described the American Indians in such a way and it just kinda went from there in collective memory.