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• NaN / NaN • NaN / NaN Back CA Skip navigation Search Search Search with your voice Sign in CA Japan's Strangest Unsolved Mystery Search Watch later Share Copy link Info Shopping Tap to unmute 2x If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. • You're signed out Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your computer. CancelConfirm Share Include playlist An error occurred while retrieving sharing information. Please try again later. 0:00 0:00 / 0:00•Watch full videoLive • Searching for the Two • Scroll for details Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot This helps protect our community. Learn more Sign in JAPAN'S STRANGEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY Nexpo Nexpo Verified 3.44M subscribers Join <__slot-el> Subscribe <__slot-el> Subscribed 81K Share Download Download Save 1.5M views 4 days ago 1,560,678 views • Sep 20, 2024 Show less Use code NEXPO at https://incogni.com/nexpo to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. 1989: a mysterious SOS sign beckons from the Japanese wilderness. The mystery of who built it, however, remains unsolved to this day. …...more ...more CHAPTERS VIEW ALL SEARCHING FOR THE TWO SEARCHING FOR THE TWO 0:00 SEARCHING FOR THE TWO 0:00 ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? 3:05 ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? 3:05 SOMETHING IS WRONG SOMETHING IS WRONG 8:39 SOMETHING IS WRONG 8:39 INTERMISSION INTERMISSION 10:18 INTERMISSION 10:18 A MYSTERY OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE A MYSTERY OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE 11:52 A MYSTERY OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE 11:52 THE DISCOVERY IN THE WOODS THE DISCOVERY IN THE WOODS 15:33 THE DISCOVERY IN THE WOODS 15:33 THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN 21:05 THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN 21:05 DECODING THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT DECODING THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT 23:40 DECODING THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT 23:40 Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript NEXPO 3.44M subscribers Videos About Videos About Support Twitter Instagram Facebook Show less JAPAN'S STRANGEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY 1,560,678 views1.5M views Sep 20, 2024 81K Share Download Download Save 4,889 COMMENTS Sort comments Sort by Top comments Newest first Add a comment... Pinned by Nexpo @NEXPO @Nexpo @Nexpo 4 days ago Learned Unreal Engine for this video and for some topics I want to cover in the future. First time using the engine but I hope you guys like it By the way, if yall have any mysteries you wanna see covered, feel free to submit them here or email me: NightmareExpo@gmail.com Show less Read more Like 6.5K Dislike Reply 203 replies 203 replies @EMIT5586 4 days ago Does anyone else find it bittersweet yet heartwarming that at the end of the day, the SOS sign did end up saving someone? The rescuers admitted they wouldn't have found the two hikers that were saved without the sign. Whether it was built by Kenji, or someone else who was lost, someone on the brink of death used the last of their strength to construct a massive SOS that ended up miraculously saving two strangers' lives years later. Show less Read more Like 6.4K Dislike Reply 19 replies 19 replies @VANISHING_AGE 4 days ago Two notes about the recording. 1. "sasa" is bamboo. presumably he's stuck in an area of thick bamboo? 2. The way Japanese works, they don't have the heavy use of pronouns that we do in English and is heavily context based. Grammatically there is no difference between "Help me" and "Help us" Show less Read more Like 12K Dislike ❤ by Nexpo Reply 88 replies 88 replies @NEMES1SXX 4 days ago Maybe Kenji build the sign BEFORE getting injured, on the tape he says "I'm at the location where I first met the helicopter". Maybe he built the sign, saw a helicopter and ran chasing after it screaming for help. While chasing after it he slips and falls, breaking several bones. Maybe he thought the helicopter saw him and would be back, his voice so ragged from screaming after the copter and in so much pain he could barely yell, he used his last bit of energy to make the recording, his voice hoarse and the recording quality so poor he would sound nothing like himself, and find his way back to the S.O.S. sign. As for the sign itself, the S.O.S. sign could have been made from downed trees and branches that he dragged into the clearing over the course of several days. Show less Read more Like 4.7K Dislike Reply 76 replies 76 replies @SAMPAVO 2 days ago I love the fact that Nexpo used PlayStation 2 Menu sound effects in the video, it really sets in the atmosphere of this whole situation. Show less Read more Like 268 Dislike Reply 5 replies 5 replies @AIRIMAGEPRISM 4 days ago Seeing a Nexpo upload when my YouTube recommended has been the absolute worst recently has breathed new life into me. Show less Read more Like 10K Dislike ❤ by Nexpo Reply 158 replies 158 replies @BEEG_BOY 4 days ago I facepalmed so hard at “fake safe rock” you’d really think they’d have a better navigation marker lmao Show less Read more Like 2.5K Dislike Reply 16 replies 16 replies @ROOSH2927 3 days ago No mention or explanation for why the hotel manager literally said nothing about this missing man…ever? Not only did he not immediately contact police or file a missing persons report at any time, he just continued living like the dude never existed? Show less Read more Like 1K Dislike Reply 20 replies 20 replies @DM44444 2 days ago The central problem with your theory is the same problem the initial rescuers of the two Tokyo hikers had. They assumed those two had made the sign. You assume Kenji was at least involved in making the sign. It's very possible, even likely, that the sign was made by OTHERs either before or after he disappeared, and those people were either never found or eventually made their way off the mountain and didn't read the news or just never came forward when their sign made headlines. If there are already two known incidents within a few years of people needing to be rescued in that exact area, and the mountain is known for having confusing trails, it's not unreasonable to propose that others have also gotten lost in that area. As far as I know from my own research into this case (I can read Japanese, though deciphering kanji on blurry 1980s scans can be tough!), there was never any analysis done on the wood itself to determine roughly when it was cut beyond noting it was done at least a couple of years before the Tokyo hikers were found. It's also worth noting that the parents COULD NOT CONFIRM it was him on the recording; they didn't say it wasn't him. Tis can be explained by the fact that it was a cassette tape recording, he was yelling in extreme duress, and he was speaking in a very unconventional manner that is not normally done. People misidentify recordings, both audio and visual, of loved ones all the time. It's hardly proof that someone else recorded the message. That said, I suspect the SOS sign is unrelated to Kenji. I also think there's a reasonable possibility that it was not made by people in distress at all, but was perhaps some sort of survival project done by a group of experienced hikers at some point. It's very hard to believe that even two people made it, whoever did it had to have an ax and likely ropes and other materials to move everything, and most people in genuine danger would probably rather exert their energy on something else such as finding food/water/shelter. If this was the case, it's unlikely the creators would have come forward if they even heard about it at all (this did make national news, but not everyone reads the paper) because it would be considered an embarrassment. Show less Read more Like 333 Dislike Reply 4 replies 4 replies @LIFEVEST1 4 days ago (edited) I lost my bro in an avalanche accident in the Inyo National Forest so hiking/mountaineering stories like this always hit different. Mountains are strange. Elevation/low oxygen does weird things to people. You could hike for hours and see only one other person. Whenever you hear a hiker say “blonde hair? Green necklace? Oh yeah, I saw him three days ago when coming down the pass.” Lines like those always give me chills. Brilliant stuff Nexpo! Show less Read more Like 1.2K Dislike Reply 5 replies 5 replies @A-LIK 4 days ago Garfield: "Oh boy, I hope this Nexpo video isn't TOO scary!" Nexpo: "...Monday." Show less Read more Like 3.7K Dislike ❤ by Nexpo Reply 6 replies 6 replies @VALHALLASREVENGE 4 days ago (edited) you left out the part where it was taken photos of the area from the air. "In regards to the SOS sign, the Japan Forestry Agency and the Japan Geographical Authority took a look at previous topographic map data used to find aerial photographs, in which it was confirmed that the SOS sign was in the images taken on 20 September 1987." meaning that the sign was there for almost two years before the story takes place.. edit : i know Kenji went missing in 84. i pointed out the first known date of the SOS sign because it's possible he or someone else could have made it? just knowing that the sign was there almost two years before they found it and a body that clearly couldn't have made it raises a lot of questions. Show less Read more Like 1.9K Dislike Reply 20 replies 20 replies @RBMAY 17 hours ago no matter what really happened, the thought of someone dying so slowly right next to an SOS sign is harrowing. Show less Read more Like 8 Dislike Reply @HANAKIN-SIDEWALKER 4 days ago If there’s one thing I’ve learned, you never, EVER underestimate what a person running on pure adrenaline can do. Show less Read more Like 2.9K Dislike Reply 29 replies 29 replies @SILLY00000 4 days ago Two different people at the same spot just not at the same time. Either a person or a group get lost and build the SOS sign, then some time later Kenji gets lost and wind up at the SOS sign. This would explain why he yells SOS being influenced by seeing the sign. Show less Read more Like 990 Dislike Reply 8 replies 8 replies @BOBTHEREDEAD 4 days ago There's no distinction between "save me" and "save us" in the Japanese used here. "Tasukete kure" is just the command form of the verb meaning to rescue (tasukeru) and a politeness verb indicating a request for a favor (kureru, meaning that someone would be giving you aid.) Japanese often omits nouns if it's clear what you are talking about. E.g., you could just say "tired" instead of "I am tired." Similarly, "tasukete kure" is asking someone to do a rescue of an implied "me/us." In this case, "kureru" is one of 2 "give" verbs, and is the one used when the speaker will be the recipient of the preceding action. It could be a singular "me" or a plural "us;" nothing in the language used indicates either way. Show less Read more Like 1.1K Dislike Reply 12 replies 12 replies @JACKSONMARRINER8506 3 days ago I feel like a strong possibility you're omitting is that the SOS sign also predates Kenji. Since Kenji and the rescued duo of hikers both ended up there, who's to say more haven't in the past? Show less Read more Like 58 Dislike Reply 2 replies 2 replies @BRUNO_BHYDT 4 days ago (edited) These new animations add such a fitting aesthetic to the video and this channel, props for the effort ! Show less Read more Like 1.2K Dislike ❤ by Nexpo Reply 10 replies 10 replies @VULDEDONE 3 days ago Okay, let's try and clean the info because the sources are confusing as hell. I can't even confirm the "two cameras" thing. - In 1982 there was no SOS sign. In 1987 there was. Confirmed by aerial photography from forestry services. - It was made of clean-cut birch trees, 16-19 of them or so. - Sources differ on whether there are birch trees in the area... - Kenji Iwamura went missing in 1984. He had a walkman and four cassette tapes (and maybe a camera, unconfirmed). - His family reported his disappearance and a search was organized, days to a week after he was gone. - This search included a 30mn helicopter flight -- helicopters were expensive and budgets were low at the time. - In 1989, the SOS sign is properly found. - The police finds remains (possibly scattered) on site, first misidentified, corresponding to a male, same age range as Iwamura. - The two fractures were apparently near the left shoulder and the right thigh. - They also find belongings including toiletry (plus a good luck charm from his region), the walkman and cassette tapes and backpack. - I can't confirm two cameras, can't confirm a small tripod, can't confirm a "human skull", can't confirm a notebook, can't even tell if there were 1 or 2 bags. - The walkman apparently had a weak loudspeaker, it couldn't be heard beyond a few meters. - The recorded SOS message had no background noise -- remarkable given just the wind can ruin it. - Sources differ on the message content: whether he "met" or "saw" a helicopter and if he really said he was on top of the cliff - Sources concur on the bamboo bushes making it really hard to go back up. - Sources differ on whether you can escape the site just by following the river or such. - The parents identified Iwamura's belongings and only could not confirm the voice. I think that's pretty much all of it. Sources are all third-hand, original second-hand articles are from 1989 and in Japanese (and possibly ripe with yellow journalism). I have no idea what the police actually said, no idea what exactly was found on site and contradictory information on the recording and the site's accessibility. The only first-hand info' is the recording, the pic' of the sign and footage of objects found where again, I can't even see a single cameras. I'll stand by my theory but this is hearsay level of reliability. Show less Read more Like 1K Dislike Reply 26 replies 26 replies @ISAAC408 4 days ago if kenji was missing for ~5 years prior, it's entirely possible his parents just forgot what his voice sounded like and were less likely to be able to recall his voice if the first time hearing it in years was him screaming in distress. people underestimate how easily and quickly you can forget people who are missing/dead especially when you have no recordings of them. i forgot my father's voice only about 2-3 years after he passed and that was with me making an effort to remember it with no recordings available. Show less Read more Like 952 Dislike Reply 36 replies 36 replies COMMENTS 4.8K Top comments Newest first CHAPTERS SEARCHING FOR THE TWO SEARCHING FOR THE TWO 0:00 SEARCHING FOR THE TWO 0:00 ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? 3:05 ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? 3:05 SOMETHING IS WRONG SOMETHING IS WRONG 8:39 SOMETHING IS WRONG 8:39 INTERMISSION INTERMISSION 10:18 INTERMISSION 10:18 A MYSTERY OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE A MYSTERY OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE 11:52 A MYSTERY OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE 11:52 THE DISCOVERY IN THE WOODS THE DISCOVERY IN THE WOODS 15:33 THE DISCOVERY IN THE WOODS 15:33 THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN 21:05 THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN 21:05 DECODING THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT DECODING THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT 23:40 DECODING THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT 23:40 JAPAN'S STRANGEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY JAPAN'S STRANGEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY 29:45 JAPAN'S STRANGEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY 29:45 Sync to video time Sync to video time DESCRIPTION Japan's Strangest Unsolved Mystery 81KLikes 1,560,678Views Sep 202024 Use code NEXPO at https://incogni.com/nexpo to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. 1989: a mysterious SOS sign beckons from the Japanese wilderness. The mystery of who built it, however, remains unsolved to this day. 💾Sources: https://pastebin.com/YTiQVg49 🎶Soundtrack: • Japan's Strangest Unsolved Mystery 🖤Support the channel: / nexpo 📲Stay updated: / nexpoyt 📧Submit a Mystery: NightmareExpo@gmail.com CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Searching for the Two 3:05 - Oddly Straightforward? 8:39 - Something is Wrong 10:18 - Intermission 11:52 - A Mystery of Extraordinary Circumstance 15:33 - The Discovery in the Woods 21:05 - The Questions that Remain 23:40 - Decoding the SOS Sign Incident 29:45 - Japan's Strangest Unsolved Mystery MORE ON THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT: Barely Sociable: • The SOS Sign Incident - An Unsolved M... - MrBallen: • The tape recording they found will gi... The following content is for educational, documentary, and artistic purposes only. Show less ...more Use code NEXPO at https://incogni.com/nexpo to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. 1989: a mysterious SOS sign beckons from the Japanese wilderness. The mystery of who built it, however, remains unsolved to this day. 💾Sources: https://pastebin.com/YTiQVg49 🎶Soundtrack: • Japan's Strangest Unsolved Mystery 🖤Support the channel: / nexpo 📲Stay updated: / nexpoyt 📧Submit a Mystery: NightmareExpo@gmail.com CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Searching for the Two 3:05 - Oddly Straightforward? 8:39 - Something is Wrong 10:18 - Intermission 11:52 - A Mystery of Extraordinary Circumstance 15:33 - The Discovery in the Woods 21:05 - The Questions that Remain 23:40 - Decoding the SOS Sign Incident 29:45 - Japan's Strangest Unsolved Mystery MORE ON THE SOS SIGN INCIDENT: Barely Sociable: • The SOS Sign Incident - An Unsolved M... - MrBallen: • The tape recording they found will gi... The following content is for educational, documentary, and artistic purposes only. …...more ...moreShow less CHAPTERS VIEW ALL SEARCHING FOR THE TWO SEARCHING FOR THE TWO 0:00 SEARCHING FOR THE TWO 0:00 ODDLY STRAIGHTFORWARD? 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