UNESCO adds Okinoshima to World Heritage list

NHK -- Jul 10

A UNESCO committee has decided to register a group of monuments in western Japan as a World Cultural Heritage Site.

The sacred island of Okinoshima and associated sites in Fukuoka Prefecture's Munakata region will be added to the list.

At a meeting in the Polish city of Krakow on Sunday, the World Heritage committee selected all 8 monuments recommended by the Japanese government.

A UNESCO advisory panel had argued that only 4 had sufficient value to be listed.

But the committee members called for registering all 8 monuments as a set because they are closely connected.

They include the Hetsumiya Shrine of Munakata Taisha and the Shinbaru-Nuyama Tumulus Cluster.

Japan now has 21 World Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites.

Jul 10 (ANNnewsCH) - 福岡県の「宗像・沖ノ島と関連遺産群」が世界遺産に一括登録されることが決定しました。 ポーランドで開催されているユネスコの世界遺産委員会は、福岡県の宗像・沖ノ島と関連遺産群を世界遺産に登録しました。