A new study suggests that modern Japanese have descended from three ancestral populations, including people in the Kofun Period between the third and seventh century. According to current ...

"The Kofun Period must have been peaceful," said Masanori Kawano, 43, the museum's chief researcher. "I imagine society of that period enjoyed a high enough level of freedom for people to express ...

The kofun have a range of contents, such as grave goods (weapons, armour, ornaments); and clay figures used to decorated the mounds, known as haniwa (in the form of cylinders arranged in rows, or ...

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