>In the Takenouchi manuscripts he shows us how the first Japanese emperor came from another world and ruled at a time when Atlantis and Mu still existed.

And seriously, what the fuck is Mu? Let's just ask Wikipedia:

>The mythical idea of Mu first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. He claimed that he had translated the ancient Mayan writings, which supposedly showed that the Maya of Yucatán were older than the later civilizations of Greece and Egypt, and additionally told the story of an even older continent.

So it's the Pacific equivalent of Atlantis, basically. OK. Fine.

>Mu ... was later popularised by James Churchward (1851–1936) ... Churchward claimed that "more than fifty years ago," while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient "sunburnt" clay tablets, supposedly in a long lost "Naga-Maya language" which only two other people in India could read. Having mastered the language himself, Churchward found out that they originated from "the place where [man] first appeared—Mu."

Is it just me or are there some striking similarities between this story and what Shii's selling? So is he knowingly writing fiction? Is he just out to make a quick buck off new age types? Does he have a renegade publisher who tacked on all this stuff about UFOs, Jesus, and Mu to his otherwise tame book about Japanese history? Any one would be fine by me, honestly. The only option I can't accept is that he actually believes any of this.