hirota

name

1. A surname from Japanese.
2. A people who lived on the island of Tanegashima in Japan between the third and seventh centuries.

   “The study team determined that Hirota people practiced cranial deformation “regardless of social rank or sex,” said coauthors Dr. Noriko Seguchi, an associate professor with the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University in Japan, and James Frances Loftus III, a postdoctoral research fellow at the university.”