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 ...

14, 2025. (Mainichi/Yasutaka Horii) SAKAI, Ibaraki -- A sushi restaurant constructed by this east Japan town as a base for interaction with inbound tourists and others has opened its doors.

A study has found that what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Image: Monument to Ushikawa man. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite ... its keepers hung their uniforms and set up human cutouts outside the tank. The next morning, the sunfish ate for ...

the next day, it felt better!" the post read. This is not the first time a Japanese aquarium has taken unusual steps to ensure its animals have human company. In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic ...

A group working under the U.N. Human Rights Council has issued a wide-ranging report about rights in Japan, including discrimination against minorities and unhealthy working conditions. The report ...

we were able to determine that the Ushikawa 'human humerus' fossil is a fragment of the shaft of a bear's radius, and that the femoral head fossil is also bear bone,” said the authors in the paper.

The 20,000-year-old bone, thought to belong to ancient human(s), turned out to be of another animal altogether. AI-generated image via DALL-E The 20,000-year-old fossilised remains of what was thought ...

The hyper-competitive restaurant industry is constantly reinventing itself and using technology to stay sharp. From modern architecture and signage to innovations in serving and embracing the ...

(Stacker/Stacker) In 1994, inspired by the black-and-white stones on a grid in the game Go, an employee at Japanese company ... the chain paused the test. Human restaurant workers certainly ...