A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that the majority of ...

Genetic analysis of an individual from the Yayoi period reveals immigration patterns from the Korean Peninsula. Researchers ...

Genome study cracks mystery of Japan’s first inhabitants - Majority of early immigrants to Japan came from Korean peninsula, ...

Surface ocean temperatures in waters around the Japanese archipelago in the first half of this year were the highest since 1982, when records were first tracked, data from the Japan Meteorological ...

Typhoon No. 10 formed near the Mariana islands in the Pacific Ocean before dawn on Aug. 22 and is expected to reach the Japanese archipelago next week, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The ...

Food replicas, which were first made in Japan and are displayed at restaurants across the country, have recently become ...

Two Chinese coast guard ships enter Japan's territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, raising regional naval ...

A joint research group has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods (between 3000 BCE and 538 CE) came from the Korean Peninsula.

Today, Japan is an international hub for both business and pleasure. However, this was not always the case. The Japanese Archipelago was relatively isolated during the Jomon period until around ...