A new study suggests that modern Japanese have descended from three ancestral populations, including people in the Kofun Period between the third and seventh century. According to current ...

Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made during the Kofun Period (3rd to 7th centuries), presumably as funerary objects. I visited the Tokyo National Museum where a special exhibition is ...

The global popularity of blades forged in the western Japan city of Sakai is on the rise, with foreign tourists boosting sales of the city’s native brand that is widely regarded as one of the ...

Sakai blades date back to Japan's Kofun period (from the third to seventh century), when blacksmiths gathered in the area to forge iron tools for tomb construction for the ruling class ...