The ancient Japanese city of Nara, which is full of Tang style
Where did Japan come from?
When did their civilization begin?
Until the 1940s, many people in the Japanese academic community went back and forth to this research, but not much progress was made. In 1946, Japan excavated stone tools from 25,000 years ago in the "Iwajuku Ruins" in Gunma Prefecture, proving the existence of the Paleolithic Age in Japan. This made the Japanese archaeological community crazy.
However, no one expected that it was because of the stone tools that the Japanese archaeological community would be destroyed by a man named Shinichi Fujimura in the decades after the discovery of the stone tools of the Iwajuku site.
I. Japan's genius archaeologist: Shinichi Fujimura, the "Hand of God"
In 1981, during the era of great discoveries in the Japanese archaeological community, an archaeological boom began throughout Japan. At this time, a young man named Shinichi Sagitomura joined a Japanese archaeological team responsible for the excavation of the scattered wood site in Iwaideyama, Miyagi Prefecture, at the age of 31. Before that, he was just a native of Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, an ordinary worker in a factory, who would occasionally go to the archaeological site as an amateur archaeologist in his free time to participate in excavations, specializing in some auxiliary work of writing records.
But 1981 was an extraordinary year for shinichi Fujimura, and as a relatively inconspicuous member of the team, he found a batch of Pleistocene Paleolithic tools in the nearly 40,000-year-old ruins at his feet, which set a new record at the time. This was big news at the time, because it meant that the earliest civilization in Japanese history could be traced forward by more than 10,000 years, and the question that has always plagued Japanese historians, "whether there is a pre-Paleolithic tool in Japan", was also supported by evidence, and the academic debate was also stopped, and the whole of Japan cheered, and the Japanese government gave Fujimura Shinichi a rich reward.
Paleolithic
But do you think that's the end of it? No! How can one excavation alone be enough? In 1984, three years after the discovery of the Pleistocene Paleolithic ruins of the Iwateyama-choza in Miyagi Prefecture, the 34-year-old Fujimura Shin repeatedly gave good news, but this time at the Racecourse Altar in Furukawa City, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the archaeological team is excavating the site numbered A, and a batch of Paleolithic tools have been excavated in Fujimura Shinichi's hands! You know, it's a site from 170,000 years ago! The excavation of such a batch of paleolithic tools also shows that the history of Japan can be pushed forward by more than 100,000 years, and at the same time supports the existence of Japan's early paleolithic culture. And Japan has a total of so many archaeological discoveries, who is not happy.
Fujimura Shinichi at the archaeological site
And this is not fujimura Shinichi's only record, in the next 20 years, he personally participated in the excavation of 33 Paleolithic archaeological sites (17 in Miyagi Prefecture), dabbled in 186 sites, excavated dozens of paleolithic tools, and repeatedly refreshed the highest record of The Paleolithic age in Japan. Major Japanese newspapers, magazines, and media have reported overwhelmingly on Shinichi Fujimura, a newcomer to the archaeological community. You know, ordinary archaeologists, the probability of excavating for several years and finally returning empty-handed is extremely high, while Fujimura Shinichi is different, almost a hundred shots. For fujimura Shinichi's mythical success, people in the industry called him "genius archaeologist" and "hand of god", and at that time, Japanese folk still circulated the saying that "as soon as Fujimura made a shot, he knew if there was one". Even in the process of compiling Japanese history textbooks at that time, Fujimura Shinichi and his discoveries were recorded in the records. It can be said that in the minds of the Japanese at that time, people like Shinichi Fujimura were close to the existence of gods, and it can be said that he was a god!
The Fall of the "Hand of God": Shinichi Fujimura's deception
But there is no shortage of smart people in Japan, and many archaeologists and news media in the world have actually questioned Fujimura Shinichi, after all, he is too smooth, and the kind of luck is so good that he bursts. However, due to the public's enthusiasm for Fujimura Shinichi at that time, they could only put away this doubt, and before there was solid evidence, these doubters did not dare to do it easily.
Japanese newspaper coverage of the site of Obergaomori
There are always people who are the first to eat crabs, and the popular national newspaper "Mainichi Shimbun" in Japan has set its sights on Fujimura Shinichi, who has been tracking and reporting Fujimura Shinichi for a long time in order to collect explosive news.
I don't know how many times Fujimura Shinichi came to the site of Kami-Takamori in Miyagi Prefecture. Originally in 1992, he unearthed Paleolithic stone tools here; a year later, he excavated a paleolithic tool claiming to be 400,000 years old at the site; in 1994, he excavated six Paleolithic tools claimed to be 500,000 years old; in 1995, he excavated 15 Paleolithic tools claimed to be 600,000 years ago; and in 1999, Fujimura Shinichi was once again enshrined, this time 700,000 years ago. It can be said that the ruins of Kami-Takamori are the cornucopia of Fujimura Shinichi, where Fujimura Shinichi will be discovered every year, and it will be advanced for a period of 100,000 years. The history of Japan, starting in 1946, has experienced three consecutive jumps from 40,000 years to 170,000 years and then to 700,000 years in Fujimura Shinichi, what a great achievement! Because of these glorious achievements, Fujimura Shinichi also became the deputy director of the Tohoku Paleolithic Culture Research Institute.
Fujimura Shinichi excavated a Paleolithic artifact from the site of Obergaomori
But Fujimura Shinichi didn't stop there. He claimed that there will be more ancient objects at the Upper Gaussen site, and the next time he excavates the Upper Gaussen site, he will definitely excavate stone tools from 1 million years ago as a gift to his master, and a confident word makes everyone look forward to this archaeological excavation. Can often walk by the river, where there is no wet shoes, the daily news reporter in order to follow him, in order to follow him, installed a monitor near the excavation of the Upper Gausen site, facing the excavation site of the Upper Gaussen site.
The monitor installed by the Mainichi Shimbun captured Shinichi Fujimura hiding his belongings
Fujimura Shinichi didn't know about it. On October 2, 2000, he sneaked back to the archaeological excavation site without anyone noticing, and secretly buried the stones he had prepared in advance into the ground to dig out in front of the big guys the next day. It was all captured by the monitor. The Daily News quickly made the video captured on the monitor public, and there was an uproar.
Japanese newspapers reported on Fujimura Shinichi's fakes
At this time, Fujimura Shinichi was still hardening his mouth, claiming that it was only this time to cheat, and the previous discoveries were true. But the insiders did not believe him anymore, and they set up a special committee, and they talked to Fujimura Shinichi five times, and finally got the truth - everything That Fujimura Shinichi found was fake, and he deceived everyone for nearly twenty years.
This scandal brought the entire Japanese archaeological community close to destruction, and the Japanese people began to lose confidence in the Japanese archaeological community, and they were unwilling to believe the so-called archaeological discoveries, because they were afraid that there might be a new Fujimura Shinichi in the future, deceiving them for decades. At the same time, the Japanese government is uncomfortable, because the Japanese government allows the publishing department to write the example of Fujimura Shinichi into textbooks. However, after discovering that all this was false, the original fake history written in the textbook had to be deleted, but how they explained it to the people was a big problem.
The overthrow of the "Hand of God" also made Japan stand out on the world stage, and the whole world knows that Japan's 700,000-year history, which was once firmly believed, is just a scam.
Wen Shijun said
Fujimura Shinichi's archaeological fraud not only reflects the problems of Fujimura Shinichi as a person, but also reflects many problems in the Japanese archaeological community system, such as only focusing on excavation and discovery, and neglecting later research, which led to Fujimura Shinichi taking advantage of it. At the same time, the Japanese government also lacks supervision and management of the illegal private excavation company, because such a huge impact, Fujimura Shinichi should be difficult to achieve such a large-scale deception in 20 years, and there may be hidden secrets behind him.
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Chen Zhijiang, "Japanese Archaeology Exposes Shocking Scandals," Guangming Daily, October 19, 2001.
Xu Jianxin, "Perspective on the Archaeological Fraud Of the Paleolithic Period in Japan", World History, No. 6, 2002.
(Author: Haoran Wenshi Taoyuan)
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