Japan is 700,000 years old?
In 1992, a 42-year-old Japanese named Shinichi Fujimura claimed that he had discovered a historical site hundreds of thousands of years ago in Kami-Takamori in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. A year later, more and more investigators were attracted by Fujimura Shinichi, who gathered in Miyagi Prefecture to witness the moment of Japan's historical renovation.
So, a year later, Fujimura Shinichi, with a large wave of investigation team members, broke into the site of the Upper Takamori site and dug out a lot of paleolithic tools from it. In the face of inquiries from the outside world, Fujimura's new hand waved a large hand and concluded that this was a paleolithic tool from 700,000 years ago. The emergence of this news instantly detonated the Japanese archaeological community and Japanese public opinion.
You know, the previous historian's view is that the earliest human appearance of the Japanese archipelago was 200,000 years ago. And this group of humans, the earliest origin, is the primitive human beings in northern China. Later, after China experienced the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, more and more Chinese fled to Japan to escape the chaos of war, and later dynasties did more or less the same. Not to mention, when Japan had a hard time establishing a dynasty, China had already developed into the Tang Dynasty, and Japan had repeatedly gone to the Tang Dynasty to study in all aspects.
It can be said that the history of Japan is closely related to China. This archaeological discovery by Shinichi Fujimura also greatly broke the usual archaeological thinking and made Japan's history start to move forward in a big stride. What is even more eye-popping is that this is only the first discovery of Fujimura Shinichi.
Since the discovery of 700,000-year-old Paleolithic tools at the Kami-Takamori site, Fujimura Shinichi has used this place as a big stage for his own archaeological excavations. In 1994, he claimed that six paleolithic tools belonging to 500,000 years ago had been excavated from the site. A year later, still on the same site, Fujimura Shinichi once again claimed that he had dug up 15 pieces, belonging to paleolithic tools from 600,000 years ago. In 1999, Fujimura Shinichi once again revealed to the world that he had found stone tools that belonged to 700,000 years ago.
Such continuous and large-scale archaeological discoveries have greatly shocked the Japanese archaeological community and also influenced the cultural thinking in Japan. But Fujimura Shinichi didn't seem to think it was enough, and he made a big fuss in front of the media, saying that he would continue to dig until he dug up the 1 million-year-old paleolithic tools and then gave it to his mentor.
Suddenly, Japan boiled over, and they felt that Japan's history should be so long. As a result, Japanese history textbook publishers excitedly revised their textbooks and compiled the achievements of Fujimura Shinichi into the textbooks. At the same time, the people began to greatly respect Fujimura Shinichi, a thin old man, and even used the title of "Hand of God" to refer to him. Fujimura Shinichi, also blessed by one archaeological discovery after another, became the former vice chairman of the Tohoku Paleolithic Culture Research Institute.
But no one expected that Fujimura Shinichi's overturn would come so unexpectedly! In 2000, the Japanese media published a series of photographs of God's hand burying fake artifacts in plastic bags.
The media that photographed the counterfeiting of cultural relics is the Mainichi Shimbun, one of Japan's three major newspapers. During the filming, the reporter found that the archeological god who was known as the hand of God by the public actually buried the contents of his plastic bag in the ruins of Upper Gaussen. As soon as this incident came out, there was an uproar in Japan.
Shinichi Fujimura, who was caught in the right place, could not refute the stone hammer of the photo at all, but still shamelessly said that he was completely deceived by doing so. Subsequently, he told the outside world that he was sick and would be hospitalized and could not show his face. But at this time, who would care that Fujimura Shin would not be sick for the rest of his life, so a large wave of media ran to his hospital bed with a camera and asked him to give an explanation. In the face of fierce journalists, Fujimura Shinichi helplessly said in front of the camera that there were 42 sites where he had forged.
Subsequently, the Japanese Archaeological Society began to intervene in the investigation, but the results were worse than they expected. Of the 178 archaeological sites that Fujimura shinichi has participated in and presided over, 159 have been counterfeited. To make matters worse, the Kogomori site, which the Japanese saw as a change in Japanese history, turned out to be a fake site of no academic value. This discovery has greatly humiliated the Japanese people, and also made the Japanese archaeological community lose face internationally.
Japanese publishers have recycled or deleted the content about Fujimura Shinichi's archaeology, and the Japanese Historical Society has also removed the Kami-Takamori site from the list of Japanese historical sites, and Fujimura Shinichi's archaeological position has also been recycled! At this point, this eight-year-long archaeological fraud farce has finally come to an end!
Later, when Japan's real archaeologists came out to speak out and said that Fujimura Shinichi became popular, they also wondered why people who found so many historical sites did not publish a single academic report. In the end, it was discovered that Fujimura Shinichi was an amateur archaeologist.