Just off the island of Okinawa, Japan at the bottom of the East China sea sits a collection of enigmatic structures. No one knows what they are exactly, or even who built them. Are they man-made, natural or something that nature started and humans completed?

Masaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus believes that these submerged stone structures are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis, sunk beneath the waves some 2000 years ago.

Masaki has spent the last 15 odd years diving at the site to measure and map it out. Each time he returns to land he says that he is more convinced that the structures are the remains of a 5000 year old city.

The largest structure, he claims, is a complicated, monolithic, stepped pyramid that rises from a depth of 25 meters.

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In september 1995, not far from the shore of the island of Yonaguni, more then 300 airline miles south from Okinawa, they found a gigantic, pyramidal structure in 100 feet of water. In what appeared to be a ceremonial center of broad promenades and flanking pylons, the gargantuan building measures 240 feet long.

“The object has not been manufactured by nature. If that had been the case, one would expect debris from erosion to have collected around the site, but there are no rock fragments there,” Professor Masaki told National Geographic.
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