English Heritage will host a special exhibition at the Stonehenge visitor centre, drawing comparisons between the late Jomon period in Japan and the late Neolithic period in the British Isles, and the surprising connections between Stonehenge and Japan. Working in partnership with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture, the exhibition has been designed to explore everyday life and ritual beliefs in Japan at the time of Stonehenge.

The exhibition is being sponsored by the Ishibashi Foundation and the Jomon Sites in Hokkaido and Northern Tohoku World Heritage Promotion Committee, which has enabled us to bring key archaeological objects from four important Jomon sites in northern Japan and display them in Wiltshire alongside objects from UK lenders. Sites in the tentative World Heritage Site of Jomon archaeological sites in Hokkaido and Northern Tohoku will be featured, helping to promote the values of World Heritage and make links between the two prehistoric World Heritage Sites.