Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

In the mid-1980s, the government of Kyushu’s Saga Prefecture decided to develop a relative unused low hill in the town of Yoshinogari, about 12 kilometers from the Ariake Sea, into a regional ...

Ancient haniwa figurines, believed to guard or imprison souls of the dead, include the famed “Dancing People” discovered in ...

This ancient population were farmers, and their time in the Japanese archipelago – between 300 and 700 AD – is associated with the introduction of rice cultivation to the country. A new study by ...

A 1,500-year-old tomb containing human remains and armor has been found in surprisingly good condition, according to Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun. Found in the city of Shibushi, located on ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...

An annual race featuring ancient-style rowboats brought excitement to Saga City in western Japan on Sunday. The roughly ...