SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to a higher body mass index (BMI) among individuals, underlining that ancient ...

According to current mainstream theory, Japanese have mixed origins in the Jomon people known for their distinctive pottery culture (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) and the Yayoi people with their own ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to ...

During Japan's Jomon period from about 16,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, people lived as hunter-gatherers. As some of their DNA was passed down to modern Japanese, unraveling their genome is ...

Despite an incredibly rich prehistory covering nearly ten thousand years, modern coverage of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to overlook the Jomon of Japan. This text presents an overview ...

This effectively means variations in modern day Japanese genetic patterns can be explained by the historical influence of ancient Jomon hunter-gatherers and two continental groups from Northeast and ...

and meet craftspeople inspired by Jomon culture. The Sannai-Maruyama Site is one of the largest Jomon sites in Japan ...

The unique DNA makeup found in the bones matches that of a people group from the Korean Peninsula mixing with native Jomon people. The influx of Korean Peninsula immigrants to Japan probably led ...

Its earliest inhabitants were the Jomon people, a collection of hunter-gatherer societies that lived an isolated life on the islands since 14,000BC. It wasn’t until the Yayoi and Kofun periods ...

Earlier theories suggested that the native Jomon people mixed with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula, known as the Yayoi, between 300 B.C.E. and 538 C.E. However, a recent study published in ...