Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made during the Kofun Period (3rd to 7th centuries), presumably as funerary objects. I visited the Tokyo National Museum where a special exhibition is ...

A research team, including Professor Naoto Tomioka of Okayama University of Science, has uncovered new genetic evidence challenging the long-standing "dual-structure model" of Japanese ancestry. By ...

The estimated average height of Japanese men reached 163 centimeters during the Kofun Period, which ran from the end of the third century to around the seventh century. But then they began to shrink.

The similarity was particularly close to Kofun period people with distinct ancestries related to east and northeast Asian ...