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The extinction of the Emishi took place over the Heian period, so around 200 - 300 years-ish. It was a genocide since the Emishi are no longer around as a distinct group, having been absorbed wholesale into the wider Japanese population, but they weren't getting systematically executed in death camps.I don't think that's quite the apt comparison. Humans and Neanderthals coexisted for many thousands of years. It's closer to normal evolution than genocide. We don't even know how much they fought, or if they just avoided each other most of the time.
The "extinction" in Japan took only a fraction of the time, and was much more political, and probably much more violent. The label "genocide" might not be absolute there, but it's at least an approximate term.
The best modern day equivalent would be what's happening in Tibet and Inner Mongolia with the Han Chinese intermarrying and wiping out native culture, assimilating these disparate ethnic groups into the wider Chinese population.