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Yonaguni structures
Yonaguni Structures are a set of structures discovered in the Japanese island of Yonaguni around 1985 by the Japanese submariner Kihachiro Aratake, who found them by chance. This is a megalith, which was probably out of the sea during the ice ages; with forms on the surface appearly made by man.
It has been much speculation about the origin of this “monument” as it is called in Japan. For many geologists and historians, the structures are of natural origin. Other authors assume that Yonaguni was part of the civilization of Mu, whose fate would had been similar to Atlantis or Thule.
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