Archaeology in Japan is in turmoil following the news that a prominent expert has been caught tampering with sites and publishing false results. Q: What did he do? A: First things first. Shinichi ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Shinichi Fujimura once boasted that he could "see 500,000-year-old landscapes." An amateur Japanese paleontologist with ...

The Japanese Archaeological Association on Sunday concluded that none of the alleged stone tools that disgraced archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura said date back to the Paleolithic period have any ...

Disgraced archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura, who previously admitted to planting pieces of Paleolithic tools at two sites in northern Japan, has also admitted faking discoveries at at least 30 sites in ...

TOKYO, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura, accused of faking stoneware discoveries, now blames mental illness for his conduct. In an interview with Mainichi Shimbun published ...

TOKYO -- Shinichi Fujimura was a superstar in the world of Japanese archaeology. His uncanny ability to make surprising finds earned him the nickname "The Hand of God" and came to define how history ...

I t is a case as egregious, and as puzzling, in its way as the case of Mr. Shinichi Fujimura, the eminent Japanese archaeologist who was found two years ago to have faked a number of key discoveries.

Professor Matsufuji was unsurprised; his profession is still struggling to restore its reputation from damage inflicted by the uncovering of Shinichi Fujimura's fraudulent career nine years ago. "That ...

TOKYO — A once-celebrated Japanese archaeologist who was caught on film burying a discovery at a digging site last year has admitted to falsifying at least 40 findings, a newspaper reported Saturday.