Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human ... Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are not nearly ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

TOKYO (Bernama-Xinhua): Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, has become the country's oldest person following the recent death of the previous title holder ...