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- Daisen Burial Mound - One of the largest mausoleums in the world, believed to be the tomb of a fifth-century emperor. Located in the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture.
jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his10.html
- Dazaifu Ruins - The ruins of Dazaifu, a western fortress city that played an important role as a base for diplomacy and trade with continental Asia, lie in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, in the northern part of Kyushu in the southwest of Japan.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his25.html
- Demon Cave - Access, location, and contact information.
www.pref.miyazaki.jp/resort/english/rekisi/b0805.htm
- Fukui Cave - A short description of Fukui Cave with the world's oldest pottery dating to 10,700 B.C.E.
emuseum.mnsu.edu/archaeology/sites/asia/fukuicave.html
- Imperial Palace - The Imperial Palace sits in the center of Tokyo, on the site of the Edo Castle with intact moats and stone walls where the Shogunate was located in the Edo period (1603-1868).
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his04.html
- Iwate Archeological Site to be Checked - Announcement in Japan Today of the Japan Archaeology Association's intention to review the sites and finds of dishonored archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura.
www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=187494
- Kofun: Ancient Burial Mounds - Illustrated introduction to keyhole-shaped mounds, particularly those of the Nara Basin, by Noboru Ogata, Kyoto University.
www.nara-wu.ac.jp/bungaku/soramitsu/kofun.html
- Kofun: Ancient Burial Mounds - Illustrated introduction to keyhole-shaped mounds, particularly those of the Nara Basin, by Noboru Ogata, Kyoto University.
fischer.jinkan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soramitsu/kofun.html
- Kusado Sengen - Decades of digging at this lost town have uncovered much about medieval Japan. Yasuyuki Susuki gives an illustrated description of the excavations and the museum housing the full size reconstruction of part of the town.
www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~suzuki-y/index_e.htm
- Kusado Sengen - A site report describing the medieval town of Kusado Sengen, Japan; and includes the discoveries, origins, transformation, and nature of the town.
www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~suzuki-y/index_e.html
- Motsuji Temple Jodo Garden - The ruins of Motsuji Temple in Hiraizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture, are, like Chusonji Temple, a reminder of the prosperity of the three generations of the Fujiwara family in the 12th century under whose reign there flourished a high aristocratic culture.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his02.html
- Saitobaru Ancient Tombs - From the end of the 2rd to 7th centuries, several hundred burial mounds, or Kofun were thrown up over the tombs of important people, including the members of powerful clans.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his17.html
- Saitobaru Kofun Burial Mounds - Access, location, and contact information.
www.pref.miyazaki.jp/resort/english/midokoro/kenou/m0801.htm
- Sannai Maruyama Ruins - In Aomori Prefecture, the Sannai-Maruyama Ruins are believed to be those of a village that started 5,500 years ago in the early Jomon era and ended in the mid-Jomon era about 1,500 years later.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his01.html
- Shuri Castle - Shuri Castle, whose ruins remain in Naha City of Okinawa Prefecture, is said to date back to the 12th century or earlier.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his18.html
- Sites in Asuka, Japan - Stone relics and monuments, of unknown age or origin, with possible Solstitial and/or Principle Term alignments. With photos.
www2.gol.com/users/stever/asukas.htm
- Taga Castle Ruins - The ruins of Taga Castle are the remains of an ancient fortress that played a central role in the violent struggle to unify the nation located in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture in the northeastern part of Japan.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his20.html
- The Historic City of Nara - Online version of monograph from the UNESCO Cultural Virtual Library.
www2.unesco.org/clt-bv/html_eng/book2.htm#nara
- Toro Ruins - The Toro Ruins in Shizuoka Prefecture mark where an agricultural village used to exist around 100-300 CE.
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his08.html
- Yoshinogari Ruins - Lying in southern part of the Yoshinogari hills the middle part of Saga Prefecture the Yoshinogari remains of a state-like society in ancient Japan date from the Yayoi period (3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE).
www.jinjapan.org/atlas/historical/his15.html
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