A model of an ancient dog at a museum in Omi-Hachiman, Shiga Prefecture, is gaining popularity thanks to social media posts ...

Hokkaido Jomon cultures continued during the Yayoi period long after the Jomon ended ... For one thing, few actually witnessed Ainu life before it was disrupted by Japanese colonization attempts ...

Speculation was rife that someone in power was buried in the stone coffin, which dates back to the second half of the Yayoi Period (c. 1000 B.C.-250 A.D.), when the Yamatai state is believed to ...

14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) and the Yayoi people with their own pottery culture (1000 B.C.-A.D. 250). However, a DNA analysis of human bones from about 1,500 years ago during the Kofun Period showed ...

Its earliest inhabitants were the Jomon people, a collection of hunter-gatherer societies that lived an isolated life on the islands ... a person dating to the Yayoi period whose remains were ...