Sumo is one of Japan's most iconic sports, but few know the story of its origins. Katsuragi City in Nara Prefecture is ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A research team from the University of Tokyo analyzed DNA from a Yayoi-period skeleton to determine ...

Published in the Journal of Human Genetics, the University of Tokyo study confirms that immigrants from the Korean Peninsula interbred with the indigenous Jomon population during the Yayoi period ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers ... their genetic imprint on the people of today. The research analysed ...

Remains of a 15-meter pit house were discovered in the Matsugasaki ruin, where a Jomon period settlement site had been unearthed, in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, the Korekawa Archaeological ...

and worn ornaments such as earrings that used lacquer tree sap as a coating material have been unearthed from archaeological sites from the early Jomon period, about 7,000 years to 5,500 years ago. It ...