Funasugi was commissioned by the Japan Institute of International Affairs, a Tokyo-based think tank researching foreign and security issues, in 2018 to seek old maps showing the Takeshima isles.

The oldest one in Japan dated back to the latter part of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). The newly found manuscript is scheduled to go on display at the Marunouchi main store of Maruzen Bookstore ...

British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map of the world. In marveling over this piece, he recalled how one of his ...

We all want to get the most out of our holidays, which is why we so often turn to online “top things to see” lists, or TikTok ...

The oldest person in Japan has died at the age of 116 years old. Fusa Tatsumi died of old age on Dec. 12 at 9:25 a.m., ...

Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

Japan’s roads are getting old. So much so, that certain parts are dangerous. A survey by the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry shows that 45,000 bridges and tunnels are ...

The oldest surviving complete map of London is to go on display as part of a new exhibition. Civitas Londinium was created in the 1570s and gives a view across the capital, from the bear-baiting ...

More than one in 10 people in the world's oldest country have crossed the 80-year-old mark for the first time For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older.

Unrelated clips of troops from the Japanese Self-Defence Force and naval vessels have been viewed hundreds of thousands of ...