Why the Japanese are afraid of archaeology

Because Japan doesn't have a long history and culture, and because of the falsification of Japanese archaeologists, Japanese archaeology is not very credible.

Japan also triggered an archaeological fever after the introduction of archaeology to Japan. Especially in the 1980s, when Japan's economy was growing rapidly, as an island nation, its economy was already the second largest in the world. In addition to their economic achievements, they also wanted to make a breakthrough in culture and politics. Therefore, there were many archaeologists in Japan at that time. They conducted archaeological excavations all over Japan to understand the origin and development of Japan's own culture.

Understandably, despite Japan's prosperity at the time, their hearts were always hollow: they were politically and economically constrained by the United States, and their culture had long been influenced by China. As a result, Japan was eager to find archaeological evidence to prove that Japanese culture originated in their own country, not from China, and had always been independent, bolstering national pride and cohesion.

Not to mention the fact that Japanese archaeologists did find many so-called Japanese cultural heritages at that time, which were later found by journalists to be fabricated by Japanese archaeologists. It turned out that they did not find these artifacts at all, but were just fake artifacts deliberately made to pander to Japanese politicians and people. After the outbreak of the campaign, the credibility of Japanese archaeology was greatly reduced, and it has declined since then.

In the 1980s, Fujimura Shinichi led the Japanese archaeologists and was active in the Japanese archaeological community, and the Japanese people at that time also felt that Fujimura Shinichi was a very powerful character. And he even announced to the outside world that he had found and hit the stone tools in Japan 700,000 years ago, which means that there has been human activity in Japan as early as that time, which is undoubtedly a bright face for the Japanese people.

But there was a Japanese reporter who didn't indulge in such a complacent atmosphere like other Japanese, and he was skeptical because he had the ability to think independently. Sure enough, on one occasion, his camera, which he had hidden in advance, caught Shinichi Fujimura red-handed. Shinichi Fujimura shoved a stone into the ground, and the revelation of this incident outraged the Japanese public. From then on Japan's archaeological journey came to an end.