Courtesy of Tottori Prefecture Goshuin stamps of Yayoi period ruins participating in a stamp-collecting project By Hiroshi Tachibana / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer 10:22 JST, May 17, 2025& KAKOGAWA, ...

A Yayoi period bronze bell, which is said to have been found in Kagawa Prefecture and housed in the Tokyo National Museum, depicts humans and dogs hunting a wild boar.

Yayoi Kusama was open between 15 December 2024 and 21 April 2025. It covered almost nine decades of the reclusive Japanese artist’s career, featuring 200 artworks.

By analyzing the DNA of a 2,300-year-old skeleton, the team was able to learn that Japanese ancestry is a mix of two people groups that integrated during the Yayoi period (around 300 B.C. to 300 A ...

The new study, published in the Journal of Human Genetics, analysed the genome of a person dating to the Yayoi period whose remains were uncovered at the Doigahama archaeological site in Yamaguchi ...

The researchers compared the genome of this Yayoi-period individual with the genome of ancient and modern populations in East Asia and Northeast Asia. The comparison showed close similarity to Kofun ...

Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Credit: J. Kim et al. / University of Tokyo The Doigahama site in Yamaguchi Prefecture is famous for ...

The new study, published in the Journal of Human Genetics, analysed the genome of a person dating to the Yayoi period whose remains were uncovered at the Doigahama archaeological site in Yamaguchi ...

Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago. Journal of Human Genetics, 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s10038-024 ...

The Japanese Archipelago was relatively isolated during the Jomon period until around 3000 BCE. Then, during the Yayoi and Kofun periods, immigration to the islands from continental Asia began.