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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...