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Yonaguni: The Japanese Atlantis That’s Definitely Real!

It‘s Probably (not) Aliens!

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Japan and the Pacific Ring of Fire

Japan is known for being a site of extremely hard tectonic activity. The bedrock around Yonaguni is very fractured and you can see it in the fact that there's like layers of sandstone and shale and limestone all over the place. According to believers in Yonaguni being an ancient civilization, this is when they would have gone underwater during the Pleistocene.

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