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 ...

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.

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