The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...
The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.
SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of society and harvests for the year was held from ...
In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...
Fossils once thought to represent the earliest known human remains from the country turn out to be from another animal.
NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle ... Paleoanthropologist Gen Suwa of the University of Tokyo’s University Museum and his colleagues recently studied the bones, which were ...
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the lowest temperature recorded on Sunday morning was minus 24.6 degrees Celsius in the town of Rikubetsu, Hokkaido. The city of Suwa in Nagano ...
The new finding by Gen Suwa, a specially appointed professor of anthropology ... and recorded as such in textbooks on the history of Japan. But by the 1980s, researchers had become skeptical about the ...
The event, hosted by the Suwa Falconry Preservation Society, offered a glimpse into a tradition that has evolved over millennia but remains steeped in its ancient roots. And while the showcase was ...