A few years ago, 17 Jomon archeological sites in Japan’s four northernmost prefectures received UNESCO World Heritage designation, sparking fresh interest in Japan’s ancient Jomon heritage. Jomon is ...

A study has reported that the genetic characteristics of the Jomon people, a hunter-gatherer population living in ancient Japan, are associated with a high body mass index (BMI). The study also ...

Fertile periods of artistic endeavor are not hard to come by in Japanese history. Many would cite, for example, the Edo (1603-1868), Muromachi (1392-1573), or Heian (794-1185) periods. Few, however, ...

In 2021, UNESCO awarded Japan a new World Heritage Site, collectively known as the Jomon Prehistoric Sites of Northern Japan. The sites are located in 17 different locations across four prefectures ...

UNESCO has decided to register a group of Jomon period prehistoric sites in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region on the World Cultural Heritage list. The listing ...

Emblazoned with big letters spelling out JOMON JAPAN, banners snapped in the breeze everywhere in the city of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. They also bore a design of a huge wave connecting Hokkaido ...

The Jomon were the first inhabitants of Japan, who lived in the country between 16,500 and 2,300 years ago. They lived as sedentary hunter-gatherers, and during the Middle Jomon period around ...

This summer, while the world was engrossed in the battle for the top of the medals table at the spectator-less Tokyo Olympics, Japan quietly received a different kind of award. On July 27, Unesco ...

Human history is a bloody patchwork of battles and wars that leaves many to conclude our species is inexorably drawn towards violence. But a new study of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Japan has ...

Thousands of years ago, one of our ancestors must accidentally have made their first pot. We can imagine that a lump of wet clay somehow ended up in the fire, dried out, hardened and formed a hollow ...