UNESCO adds Okinoshima to World Heritage list www3.nhk.or.jp

posted by  Yubi | 8 years ago

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.