The genes of modern Japanese people may have been hiding a long-lost line of ancestors, who once migrated to the top of the archipelago from the northeastern mainland of Asia. The discovery ...

Japanese embroidery, or nihon shishu, takes center stage at the Polasek Museum of Winter Park in an exhibit of shimmering beauty.

A father and son in Tokyo are continuing the centuries-old tradition of making tsukudani, a preserved Japanese food ...

Gorgeous baroque pearls, expert gold craftsmanship, and ancient Japanese arts come together in George Inaki Root’s fabulous fine jewelry company, Milamore.

Meaning “joining with gold”, this centuries-old art is more than an aesthetic. For the Japanese, it’s part of a broader philosophy of embracing the beauty of human flaws.

Ancient lotus flowers are in full bloom in the city of Gyoda, northwest of Tokyo. The ancient lotus of Gyoda was grown from ...

Modified skulls found in an ancient burial site in Japan were deliberately reshaped in both men and women as an expression of collective identity, a new study suggests.

There are many outstanding questions and further areas to explore. "Ancient genomics on the Japanese archipelago, geographically isolated islands, provides a unique opportunity to observe the ...

These Ancient Japanese Islanders Created a Signature Skull Shape by Molding Babies’ Heads Some 1,800 years ago, the Hirota people practiced intentional cranial modification ...

Modified skulls found in an ancient burial site in Japan were deliberately reshaped in both men and women as an expression of collective identity, a new study suggests.