Around 30,000 years ago, prehistoric humans left Taiwan to settle on Japan's Ryukyu Islands, but scientists have long been ...

Paddling over 45 hours across the open sea, the crew navigated using only the sun and stars to overcome the strong Kuroshio current.

Researchers used a canoe replica to trace Paleolithic migration from Taiwan to Japan, showing how early humans crossed seas ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

To unravel the mysteries of these difficult voyages, the researchers employed a unique combination of numerical simulations ...

A research group in Japan has made a supercomputer simulation on how ancient people crossed the waters between Taiwan and the ...

The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

A Japanese team has concluded that it was possible to travel from Taiwan to Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni in a ...

The voyage in a log boat, with no sails, was possible if all the rowers were highly skilled and adjusted their course with ...

Humans arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most remote ...

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...