Researchers Stunned After Discovering 20,000-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to a Bear, Mistook It to Be of a Human Initially The 20 ...

Fukumitsuya, a historic sake brewery dating back to 1625, is a must-visit for sake lovers. This brewery specialises in Junmai ...

Fossils once thought to represent the earliest known human remains from the country turn out to be from another animal.

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of society and harvests for the year was held from ...

The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

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 ...

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 ...

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International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

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 ...