17+ hour, 3+ min ago   (83+ words) By RINTARO SAKURAI/ Staff Writer January 11, 2026 at 07:00 JST The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today's Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril (Chishima) islands, according to a new theory by a group…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1105+ words) By RINTARO SAKURAI/ Staff Writer July 26, 2025 at 07:00 JST Unlocking a 30,000-year-old mystery, scientists now believe they know how early humans successfully navigated the seas to migrate to Japanese islands." In 2019, a team of researchers in Japan demonstrated in an experiment…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago   (521+ words) Zoom This illustration provided by researchers in April depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP) An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early…...