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 ...

which are known as "kofun" after the Kofun period of Japanese history when they were built, between A.D. 300 and 710. Kofun are also found elsewhere in Japan, and it is estimated there may be as ...

The similarity was particularly close to Kofun period people with distinct ancestries related to east and northeast Asian ...

The estimated average height of Japanese men reached 163 centimeters during the Kofun Period, which ran from the end of the third century to around the seventh century. But then they began to shrink.

The Japanese Archipelago was relatively isolated during the Jomon period until around 3000 BCE. Then, during the Yayoi and Kofun periods, immigration to the islands from continental Asia began.

A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors during the Kofun period (c. 300–538 CE). Lead author ...

The burial mound, known as a kofun, is a gently arching mass of greenery in the Osaka urban sprawl. Covered originally in stone, it gives a profound sense of having returned to nature, largely ...

However, this was not always the case. The Japanese Archipelago was relatively isolated during the Jomon period until around 3000 BCE. Then, during the Yayoi and Kofun periods, immigration to the ...

The similarity was particularly close to Kofun period people with distinct ancestries related to east and northeast Asian ancestries. open image in gallery Immigrants from Korean peninsula admixed ...