Nation is torn between anger, pity.
In scenes captured by a hidden video camera, Shinichi Fujimura plants an artifact at a dig site. Renowned Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura seemed to have the magic touch. Even as his colleagues dreamed of someday pulling off a single major discovery, Fujimura unearthed hundreds of prehistoric stone artifacts throughout the 1980s and '90s. On Sunday, as Japanese watched in disbelief, Fujimura bowed his head in shame before television cameras and admitted that on several recent occasions his early morning visits were used to plant artifacts. Fujimura could no longer ignore his rivals' charges.