A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese ...

The Yonaguni Monument, an enigmatic underwater structure near Japan’s Yonaguni Island ... suggesting it is the creation of an ancient civilization lost to rising seas thousands of years ago.

Ancient trees, enduring through time, observe civilizations' rise and fall, serving as nature’s storytellers, linking our ...

If you enjoy learning about history, then the Ainu will fascinate ... Mount Nantai was revered in ancient Japan, and the peaks of Mount Nasudake were once a hub for mountain worship.

Yakushima’s most iconic feature is undoubtedly its ancient 1,000-year-old “Yakusugi ... but contemplate the profound sense of time and history that this island embodies.

A set of documents from more than a thousand years ago that depict the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China will be included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. UNESCO’s ...

An abacus is an ancient tool used for counting, consisting of a framed set with rods on which balls or beads are moved. The abacus has been in existence in China since the second century BCE, although ...

But in Japan, thousands of students are still taught proficiency on the abacus. Advocates argue that sliding the beads up and down with your fingers and then thinking with your brain creates a ...

There are endless urban centers to visit in Japan beyond Tokyo and Kyoto ... The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up The ancient coexists with the modern in Fukuoka.

In Japan, that form has three legs ... Nagano Eishun, librarian of the Fukui Prefectural Archives and an expert on ancient spirits, says Amabie is one of more than a dozen prophecy beasts reported ...