If there's room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965 ...

Books Author explores how ancient dilemmas are echoed in the modern world In “The Shortest History of Japan,” Lesley Downer presents a fresh perspective on Japan’s 2,000-year national story.

The misidentification has implications for the understanding of Japanese prehistory. The discovery that the Ushikawa fossils are not human means that the oldest human fossils found on the Japanese ...

From the late prehistoric Jōmon culture in Japan, which extends approximately from 14,000 to 400 BCE, numerous small humanoid figurines have been found, known as dogū (literally, clay figure).. They ...

History may not be bunk, but prehistory is: So argues Stefanos Geroulanos in his spirited new book, “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins.” ...