While millet was a dietary staple in Korea, especially during the Bronze Age, it barely shows up in early Japanese diets.

New research into ancient Japanese rice farming suggests that significant technological development does not always mean ...

New research into ancient Japanese rice farming suggests that significant technological development does not always mean the ...

Ancient Japanese people maintained fish-based diets despite rice farming introduction 3,000 years ago from Korea.

The bloodlines of modern Japanese lie with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula who arrived in the archipelago during the Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (1000 B.C.-A.D. 250), new research suggests.

Traces of ancient immigration patterns to Japan found in 2000-year-old genome Genetic analysis of an individual from the Yayoi period reveals immigration patterns from the Korean Peninsula ...

The Yoshinogari Historical Park is a fascinating spot where ancient history comes back to life. Before the Yoshinogari discovery, the Yayoi historical period—the time when wet rice cultivation and ...

TOTTORI -- A 35-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture won the grand prix in an ancient Yayoi man look-alike contest held in this western Japan city on Ma ...

Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Today, Japan is an international hub for both business and pleasure. However, this was not always the ...

A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods came ...