Snowfall in Japan this winter is expected to be about average, offering visitors the chance to enjoy snow-clad castles.

Here’s how it works. The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds.

KUMAKOGEN, Ehime Prefecture--Prehistoric people in Japan fashioned human figures from stone and adorned them with jagged lines, possibly for use in religious rituals, say researchers startled by ...

What it tells us about the past: This small, clay tablet was likely a tool used to perform rituals at two prehistoric stone rings in northern Japan over three millennia ago. The holes were used ...

The Japanese government recommended on Tuesday ancient capitals located in current-day Nara Prefecture, western Japan, as ...

clay tablet was likely a tool used to perform rituals at two prehistoric stone rings in northern Japan over three millennia ago. The holes were used for counting and were arranged in the shape of ...

The Japanese government has recommended ancient capitals located in current-day Nara Prefecture as candidates for UNESCO's World Heritage list to be inscribed in 2026. The government is seeking the ...