By MASAHIRO YONEYAMA/ Staff Writer
December 24, 2020 at 08:00 JST
An attempt to replicate a human migration from Taiwan to Yonagunijima island in Okinawa Prefecture showed that a dugout canoe can cross the Kuroshio Current. (Provided by the Holistic Reenactment Project of the Voyage 30,000 Years Ago)
The ancestors of Japanese who settled in the Ryukyu Islands about 30,000 years ago were likely “explorers” from Taiwan who had a clear destination in mind, a group of researchers said. [Read More]
Stories about memories of cherry blossoms solicited from readers
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series on the death of a Japanese woman that sparked a debate about criminal justice policy in the United States
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
