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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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After a decade of dedicated research involving more the 100 dives underwater off the coast of the island of Yonaguni-jima, Professor Masaaki Kimura has obviously developed an 'eye for detail' when it comes to spotting anomalous features on the sea-floor. If a particular feature of an ancient structure found on land is encountered in an underwater structure, it takes a trained eye to recognise it as such ... One good example is the castle of 'Nakagusuku' on Okinawa, which has a perfect 'semi-circular' inward curve, and this is typical of gusuku (castles) of the Ryukyu Dynasty in the 13th century. This semi-circular feature has also been found in the 'Nakagusuku' structure on the sea-floor at Iseki Point ...
In the diagram below you can see the 'underwater Nakagusuku' highlighted in brown next to the 'Gosintai', a short distance away from the 'No.1 Monument' in the direction of the 'Stadium'. The semi-circular curve on the right of the 'underwater Nakagusuku', which is in the same style of castle-wall structure as on the Okinawan gusukus, faces a little south of east ... During the last Ice Age, when these structures were last above sea-level, and when the North Pole was in the Hudson's Bay area, 'North' would have been slightly different to what it is today in the Yonaguni region. It will indeed be very interesting if, in the course of Professor Kimura's continuing research, he finds that the underwater ruins at Yonaguni have major axis that reflect the direction of the 'Old North Pole' ...
The images below are of the mysterious 'gusuku cave' that extends inward, and slopes downward, under the gusuku structure. The two images showing the entrance are taken from the outside of the cave looking towards the semi-circular wall feature (left), and (right) from the inside of the cave looking out. It is clear for everyone to see that the 'entrance' has been 'artificially shaped', and this is not something that it is possible to imagine anyone would undertake to do to an 'underwater' cave ...
It was obviously made, and used, in the distant past when the area was last above sea-level, and currently the cave is blocked by an enormous accumulation of soil and sand to a depth of approximately 50 feet ...
When it becomes feasible to excavate under the accumulated rubble of countless centuries, this 'cave' could well hold some surprises for those who currently promote the 'cave-man' view of prehistory during the last Ice Age. Was it the ancient entrance to the 'Gusuku', or perhaps to the 'No.1 Monument' itself?
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
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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
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