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The Ultimate Discovery presents Japan as a land of prehistoric mega-structures and giant tombs still undug. Some walls, it says, resemble masonry in Peru and Egypt and use blocks too heavy for today’s machines, near moated graves nobody has excavated. At Asuka the film dwells on a flat carved stone of about a hundred tons, with basins and channels, from the centuries when Buddhism and stronger rule took hold, and on a tale of a colossal demon washing its face on another rock. A turtle stone is given a magnetic, pole-shift story. The main tomb is Ishibutai, called Japan’s largest megalithic structure and linked to Soga no Umako, built from dozens of stones brought off a nearby mountain. Hillside chambers in Kyushu are compared with rock-cut graves far away. Japan, the close says, holds thousands of kofun, most still unopened, including keyhole mounds. Underwater steps at Yonaguni are offered as a possible city from the end of the last ice age, though the film admits institutions call them natural.
Key points
- The channel claims Japanese walls and moated tombs rival famous megaliths and have barely been dug.
- An Asuka carving of about a hundred tons is left unexplained, beside a demon-washing legend.
- A turtle stone is tied to magnetism and to shifts of the earth’s poles.
- Ishibutai is presented as Japan’s largest megalithic tomb and linked to Soga no Umako.
- Hillside chamber tombs are compared with similar doorways in distant countries.
- Thousands of kofun are said to remain unexcavated, and Yonaguni is floated as a drowned ice-age city that many archaeologists reject.
Short quotes
Asuka known for its old sites and ancient remains thrived during the Asuka period 538 to 710 ad
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The Asuka carvings are placed in the centuries when Buddhism and imperial rule grew. Watch at 6:15
Oni a colossal demon who used this Stone to wash its face each morning
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A local tale supplies the giant the title promises. Watch at 16:09
Japan is home to thousands of old burial mounds known as kofun
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The closing claim is a country full of burial mounds, most of them unopened. Watch at 28:38
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