Those concerns increased in the ‘90s, with some suggesting that the fossils might be animal, not human ... in the Japanese newspaper Mainichi. Noboru Murakami, the museum's head curator, said that ...

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 ...