Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for ...

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The government decided Tuesday to seek to reduce the estimated number of deaths from a possible megaquake in the Nankai Trough off the country’s Pacific coast by 80% over the next decade.

While Tokyo was recently ranked as one of the most affordable travel destinations worldwide, several other cities in Japan are apparently – and somewhat surprisingly – even more budget ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

The Japanese government plans to begin subsidising long-term evacuation facilities in the Sakishima archipelago, at the ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

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In a remarkable journey illuminating the seafaring prowess of ancient humans, a team of scientists from Japan and Taiwan recreated a maritime crossing that may have occurred 30,000 years ago. Led by ...

The researchers first thought that early humans might have used rafts, but earlier experiments proved rafts were too slow and ...

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...