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Recycled whirligigs remain a fixture in the Japanese countryside
A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he called them, “seismic scarecrows.” Gardeners he spoke to use these ...
Researchers Used a 1,500-Year-Old Map to Find a Lost City
Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...
Emperor’s visit to Okinawa reflects imperial family’s close ties to the island. Here is why he cares
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...
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Japan’s 10,000-Year-Old Underwater ‘Pyramid’ Is Still One of the World’s Biggest Unsolved Mysteries—No One Knows Who Built It
Off the coast of Yonaguni Island in Japan, a submerged structure has puzzled divers, researchers, and archaeologists since ...
‘A huge loss.’ In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction
After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...
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2-million-year-old DNA reveals a lost Arctic world
The new study’s findings are “not just a window into an old world, but into a different climate reality,” says Brian Buma, an ecologist at the Environmental Defense Fund who was not involved ...