Put a check beside the original thirteen states which were "admitted" between 1787-1790.
alabama
montana
new york
alaska
rhode island
nebraska
utah
maryland
west virginia
virginia
maine
vermont
washington
mississippi
missouri
massachusetts
michigan
minnesota
wisconsin
wyoming
kentucky
delaware
tennessee
louisiana
texas
indiana
iowa
south carolina
kansas
south dakota
oklahoma
idaho
oregon
illinois
pennsylvania
florida
north dakota
georgia
ohio
hawaii
arizona
california
arkansas
colorado
connecticut
new hampshire
nevada
new jersey
new mexico
north carolina

The correct answer is the following.

The original thirteen states which were "admitted" between 1787-1790 were the following: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.

The delegates that met at the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May to September 1787, knew they had the difficult task of defining the new dorm of government for the United States after the weak Articles of Confederation. After so many debates, they came up with the US Constitution, after James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights. The next step was the ratification of each state to approve the new COnstitution. And that is how those states became the first 13 admitted.

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.