From ancient Shaolin ... arts series. Asian martial arts are as diverse and varied as the region itself, from Shaolin kung fu (China) and judo (Japan) to taekwondo (Korea) and Muay Thai (Thailand ...

Journey through time to uncover the rich history of how ancient Chinese pronunciation was rediscovered. Chinese scholars have ...

Take, for example, the case of an ancient statue both Japan ... of diplomatic ties between Japan and South Korea. Then, as now, Washington wanted its Asian allies to shelve their historical ...

That's because the design of these tools is heavily determined by the culture they come from, whether Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. As common as forks and spoons are, countless households and ...

Ancient kingdom ... Shangjing' at Japan’s Osaka Museum of History Japan’s Osaka Museum of History has come under fire for using a Chinese-style term for the ancient Korean kingdom of Balhae.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation ... tool for investigating ancient recycling practices.

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

The researchers compared the genome of this Yayoi-period individual with the genome of ancient and modern ... except for modern Japanese populations, was the closest to modern Korean populations, ...