A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan

Changes in the Kuroshio Path, Surface Velocity and Transport During the Last 35,000 Years

(2022) Haiyan Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences

(2021) Fuzuki Mizuno et al.   Scientific Reports

A demographic test of accidental versus intentional island colonization by Pleistocene humans

(2020) Yasuo Ihara et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

THE INTCAL20 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION CURVE (0–55 CAL kBP)

(2020) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

A Persistent Kuroshio in the Glacial East China Sea and Implications for Coral Paleobiogeography

(2020) N. S. Vogt‐Vincent et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Palaeolithic voyage for invisible islands beyond the horizon

(2020) Yousuke Kaifu et al.   Scientific Reports

Gauging Quaternary Sea Level Changes Through Scientific Ocean Drilling

(2019) Yusuke Yokoyama et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Update: Explorers successfully voyage to Japan in primitive boat in bid to unlock an ancient mystery

(2019) Dennis Normile   SCIENCE

Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident

(2019) Michael I. Bird et al.   Scientific Reports

Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul

(2019) Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An early colonisation pathway into northwest Australia 70-60,000 years ago

(2018) Kasih Norman et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul

(2018) Shimona Kealy et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

(2017) Chris Clarkson et al.   NATURE

Variation in subsurface water temperature and its link to the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough during the last 38.5 kyr

(2017) Yoshimi Kubota et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Mean Structure and Variability of the Kuroshio from Northeastern Taiwan to Southwestern Japan

(2015) Magdalena Andres et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

M2baroclinic tide variability modulated by the ocean circulation south of Japan

(2015) Sergey M. Varlamov et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Body size reduction in wild boar (Sus scrofa) from the late Pleistocene Maehira Fissure Site in Okinawa-jima Island, Japan, with relevance to human arrival

(2014) Masaki Fujita et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Removing Spurious Low-Frequency Variability in Drifter Velocities

(2012) Rick Lumpkin et al.   JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY

Mandibular tooth root size in modern Japanese, prehistoric Jomon, and Late Pleistocene Minatogawa human fossils

(2011) GEN SUWA et al.   ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Late Pleistocene modern human mandibles from the Minatogawa Fissure site, Okinawa, Japan: morphological affinities and implications for modern human dispersals in East Asia

(2011) YOUSUKE KAIFU et al.   ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Comparative analysis of the glabellar region morphology of the late Pleistocene Minatogawa crania: a three-dimensional approach

(2011) AIKO SASO et al.   ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Fossil record of early modern humans in East Asia

(2011) Yousuke Kaifu et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

MIS3 edge-ground axes and the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in the Japanese archipelago

(2011) Tsutsumi Takashi   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Pelagic Fishing at 42,000 Years Before the Present and the Maritime Skills of Modern Humans

(2011) S. O'Connor et al.   SCIENCE

Relative chronology of the Minatogawa and the Upper Minatogawa series of human remains from Okinawa Island, Japan

(2010) SHUJI MATSU’URA et al.   ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Global Multi-Resolution Topography synthesis

(2009) William B. F. Ryan et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS