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.

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

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

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island.