The bloodlines of modern Japanese lie with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula who arrived in the archipelago during the Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (1000 B.C.-A.D. 250), new research suggests.

They also shared genetic characteristics almost identical to modern Japanese. Large-scale migrations from the continent date back to about 3,000 years ago during the Yayoi Period. The researchers ...

Some of the earliest inhabitants of Japan came from the Korean peninsula, according to a new study that sheds more light on ...

As early as the Yayoi period (300 B.C.E.-A.D. 300), excavated earthenwares with impressed patterns ... Referred to as hanakago (flower basket) or hanaire (flower container), the Japanese bamboo basket ...