【A series of shocking discoveries have been made in the Japanese archipelago.】
First, a series of stones engraved with strange patterns, or "petrographs," were discovered on Hikoshima Island, located on the western edge of Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in front of the Kanmon Straits.
As we proceeded to decipher them, we discovered a startling fact.
To our surprise, the petroglyphs were ancient Sumerian script.
Later, petroglyphs were discovered one after another in various locations in northern Kyushu and western Yamaguchi Prefecture
The news of the discovery of the petroglyphs has attracted more attention and appreciation abroad than in Japan.
Nobuhiro Yoshida, a pioneer of petrographic research in Japan, described his impressions when he was invited for the first time to an international conference organized by the American Institute of Petrography.
I brought Japanese data to a place where Western scholars had hypothesized that since there are petrographs in the Pacific Rim, there should naturally be petrographs in the Japanese archipelago as well.
I was asked so many questions during the break that I didn't even have time to have a cup of coffee.
At first I had no idea that there would be such a huge response overseas.
If you can feel even a little of that brilliance from this collection of photographs, then you will be rewarded for all the hard work you have put in while struggling with your computer.
I was only 25 years old when I took these pictures, and now that I am about to retire, I am ashamed to admit that some of the shots make me blush, but I hope you will forgive me if I am a little too much.
「ファインダーを覗いていた」が「I took these pictures」になってしまうと一寸がっかりです。
When Yuki Amami was not yet appearing frequently in dramas, she appeared in a commercial TV program on the theme of DNA, and there was a project in which she herself went further and further into the far reaches of the Silk Road to meet the descendants of a common ancestor from long ago.
At the beginning of the program, I was curious to see what kind of face would appear, but it was an ordinary lady.
It is known that there are quite a few Japanese descendants in Portugal today who are of mixed ancestry from the era of Christian feudal lords, but is there any local talk about Japanese faces?
One example that makes me wonder if this might be the case is Cristina Blanco, who has a very Japanese look on her face.
I have listed three photos of her.
The origin of fado is said to be surprisingly new, but if we assume that a sad folk song (a primitive version of "Itsuki no Komoriuta," for example) from Kyushu during the Warring States period was brought to Japan by girls from Kyushu, then fado must have originated in Japan.
Itsuki no Komori Uta (Lullaby of Itsuki with Lyrics) by Yumiko Sameshima
It is impossible to prove it, but if Blanco sings "Itsuki no Komoriuta" arranged in Fado style at a live concert in Japan, and if she and the audience get tears in their eyes, it might become a worldwide topic of conversation.
Although not from Kyushu, "Lullaby of Takeda" (Akai Tori version) may be more tearful.
I asked my friend who lives in the U.S. how "American Feeling" sung by Circus would be received by the people there, and I asked him to spread the word, especially what he thought about the inclusion of the word "America" in a song about another country, and whether it could be a cheer song in terms of its melody. I asked.
I did, and the reply came right back, and I couldn't help but groan, "Nacchu."
The reply.
Well, we already have Trump's cheering song.
It is the song that is played before he appears on stage.
There are lots of them on U-tube, you can listen to them.
A video copyrighted by NHK was uploaded to YouTube and received about 2 million hits and more than 700 rave reviews from inside and outside of Japan, but NHK deleted it.
Considering the many fans waiting for Junko Yamamoto, who is not expected to make a comeback, and the feelings of the foreigners who were moved by the rare English singing by a Japanese, this is an outrage, isn't it?
For the money-hungry NHK, copyrights are a mere trifle, and the loss of Japan's international reputation is more important than copyrights.