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Tadahiro Aizawa
Tadahiro
Aizawa
was a
nattō
merchant
who was the first to discover
Japanese Paleolithic
artifacts
.
Prior
to Aizawa, the
scholarly consensus
had been that
Japan
was
uninhabitable
before the
Jōmon period
. Aizawa
discovered
stone
axes
at
Iwajuku
in
September 1946
. Aizawa
embarrassed
the
professional
archaeologists
; he was only an amateur who
passionately
believed
in pre-Jomon
habitation
.