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more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of
- Professor Masaaki Kimura -
University of the Ryukyus
Okinawa, Japan
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The controversy that has erupted in archæological circles around the world since the discovery of an enigmatic
structure, described by some as 'pyramid-like', at Iseki Point, just off the coast of the southernmost
Japanese island of
Yonaguni-Jima, some 15 years ago, looks set to get even hotter as news
emerges that the so-called
'Yonaguni Monument' is just one of a number of
underwater megalithic structures in a
'complex' stretching for
many hundreds of miles northeast of Taiwan.
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Please left-click on any of the images on this page to directly access Professor Kimura's own 'Japanese language' website. To download Japanese fonts for a 30-day trial period please click here. Those wishing to use Professor Kimura's images should please request permission by sending him an email. If you do not want to use Japanese fonts, the email link on Professor Kimura's site renders as ”ü•ô characters near the top of each page on his website. Images of Professor Kimura's students exploring Yonaguni-jima are here Called the 'Goshintai' or the 'Tai'you-ishi' meaning the 'sun stone', this hexagonal megalith is placed on a flat, 50 ft. square-shaped platform, at a depth of around 80 feet underwater. This massive megalith obviously did not get there by accident, and would have been impossible to have been placed there when the site was already underwater. There are 'scale-like markings' carved onto the platform which may have been used to assist with measurements by the builders of long, long ago.
a similar megalithic structure can be seen, but on dry land
In an area that is some 550 yards to the southeast of the 'No.1 Monument' at Iseki Point, and at a depth of between 65 and 115 feet, is an 'open space' with nothing in it that has been 'carved' completely flat. As can be seen from the diagram below, this oddly-shaped 'structure' that has been named the 'stadium' by Professor Kimura and his Research team, measures about 80m (265 feet) in two directions. It is surrounded by 'flight-of-steps'-like structures which resemble audience seats. In one corner there are various-sized megaliths that are standing like 'domino pieces', and they may be the remains of the focal point for the whole area of the 'Stadium'; somewhere that may well have been designed with 'acoustic' qualities in mind - perhaps the spot from where meetings were addressed, or rituals were performed. Whatever the original function of this 'Stadium' was, it could only have happened when this current seabed area was last above sea-level around 10,000 years ago ...
Outside the 'Stadium' there are 'pathways' which seem to be 'corridors', and there are also a number of 'entrances' to the 'open space'. There are well-shaped steps in the pathways, and on both sides of them there are what look like 'drainage gutters'. How anyone could possibly believe that these could have been formed solely by 'natural processes' after diving to these particluar features is something that beggars belief ...
Let us hope that Professor Kimura gets adequate funding to continue exploring these ancient remains further. These images, from what after ten years must now be a 'paradigm-busting' archive, more than demonstrate the soundness of his long-held belief that, at Iseki Point, Yonaguni-jima, we are seeing the very definite remains of an Ice Age civilisation. Surely these seabed structures should be prime candidates for 'World Heritage' status?
Marine Archæology Underwater Discoveries "Do undersea relics near Okinawa offer proof of a sophisticated civilization during the last ice age? Archeologists have long believed that civilization as we define it -- intelligent, tool-making, monument building, social humans -- began about 5,000 years ago. But submerged beneath the waves near the Japanese island of Yonaguni is evidence that may well overturn that long-held theory. A small but persuasive number of scholars and scientists have long thought that "advanced" societies may have existed as long as 10,000 years ago. Their theories, however well reasoned and defended, have been hamstrung by a lack of evidence. But recent discoveries of man-made artifacts on the Pacific seafloor may well prove to be the smoking gun that will propel this alternative view of civilization to prominence".
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Following the great cataclysms and mass extinctions of 11,500 years ago, land that was once between the Chinese mainland
Okinawa and Japan was inundated, and only in the last few years has the attention of marine scientists been
drawn to the existence of 'undersea walls', 'stepped-pyramid-like structures', and some very
'unusual artifacts' that have been discovered underwater in the East China Sea ...
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