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by Tor3 980 days ago
I remember the time before that particular Japanese hoax was exposed by the Mainichi newspaper. That guy wasn't alone in claims about extremely early finds in Japan, he was part of a section of society which believed that the Japanese people were unique and different from everybody else. But the time frames they assumed made zero sense and long before that particular fraud was exposed this wasn't taken seriously anywhere else outside Japan.