Bowing is an ancient custom in Japan, considered a sign of respect. The common practice has deep roots in Japanese culture, ...

F or the first time ever, 6,000-year-old Japanese fishing nets have been digitally resurrected, revealing a lost era of ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the ...

(CNN) — Modified skulls found in an ancient burial site in Japan were deliberately reshaped in both men and women as an expression of collective identity. The practice may also have helped the group ...

People clad in the costumes of the ancient masked dance drama called "gigaku" have paraded in Japan's western prefecture of ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...

Now, after a set of fossilized remains was found along a river in Japan, a new species of prehistoric right whale has been discovered.