By NAOYUKI MORI/ Staff Writer
January 14, 2022 at 07:00 JST
Flat throwing stones with sharpened corners unearthed at the ruins of the Owada “jinya” administrative headquarters in Saitama. They are kept by the Saitama city board of education. (Provided by the Saitama Prefectural Ranzan Historical Museum)
RANZAN, Saitama Prefecture--Artifacts labeled as “groundbreaking discoveries” from the ruins of structures associated with warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Siege of Odawara in 1590 could have been prototypes of ninja weapons. [Read More]
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