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.

YOSHINOGARI, Saga Prefecture--The lids of a stone coffin that may contain the remains of a powerful person from the latter part of the Yayoi Period (c. 1000 B.C.-250 A.D.) were lifted here on June 5.

The find will also serve as a material for precisely determining the shaky date of the late Yayoi period," observed Hidenori Okamura, a professor of Chinese archaeology at Kyoto University.

As early as the Yayoi period (300 B.C.E.-A.D. 300), excavated earthenwares with impressed patterns of woven bamboo indicate an aesthetic appreciation of woven textures. Today, bamboo baskets are an ...