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

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

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

Researchers recreated a prehistoric sea journey to understand how Paleolithic people made long-distance crossings using ...

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

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

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

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

The Japanese government has two civilian shelter models in development. One is a short-term plan using reinforced existing ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

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

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