【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。