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 ...

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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 ...

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The Korean language is part of a northern Asian language known as Altaic, that includes Turkish, Mongolian and Japanese, suggesting early Northern migrations and trade. Korean was also heavily ...

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

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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, ...