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World Heritage Sites in Western Japan
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Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group
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Nara
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Kyoto
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Buddhist monuments at Horyuji Temple
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Himeji Castle
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Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
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Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine Site and its Cultural Assets
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Atomic bomb dome
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Itsukushima Shrine
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Yakushima
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"The Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region"
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Hidden Christian Sites in Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region
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Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of the Ryukyus
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Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, northern Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island
Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group
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Registered as a World Bunka Site Jul. 2019
Osaka Prefecture Sakai City, Habikino City, and Fujiidera City Osaka Prefecture
The Mozu-Furuichi Group is scattered acrossOsaka Prefecture Sakai City, Habikino City, and Fujiidera City in Osaka Prefecture.
During the heyday of the Kofun period from the late 4th century to the late 5th century, kofun were built all over Japan, modelled on the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group. The fact that kofun are diverse in size and shape, ranging from keyhole-shaped tombs that are unique in the world and reach lengths of nearly 500 meters to burial mounds of around 20 meters, reflects the actual political and social control of the time, and is considered to be physical evidence suggesting that there was a unique Bunka tradition in kofun construction, and was registered as a World Bunka Site in 2019.
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Nara
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Dec. 1998: Registered as a World Heritage Site
Nara City, Nara Prefecture
Nara Prefecture Nara City The "Cultural heritage of the ancient capital Nara" scattered throughout the city.
It was registered as a Bunka heritage site in 1998 in recognition of the fact that it is a group of buildings that represents the Bunka exchange with China and the Korean peninsula in the 8th century, Japan that it is a group of heritage sites that conveys the ancient Miyakonojo Heijokyo, where the foundation of the nation was established, Japan that it nurtured the unique Jindo ideology and Buddhism Bunka and still remains as Bunka a heritage site.
Kyoto
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Dec. 1994: Registered as a World Bunka Site
Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City, and Uji City in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture Otsu City
The 'Cultural Heritage Sites of the Ancient City of Miyako,' which are scattered throughout Uji City in Kyoto Prefecture and Otsu City in Shiga Prefecture.
Heian In 1994, it was registered as a Bunka heritage site in recognition of its architectural and garden styles representative of the various periods from the Bunka to Edo eras, its preservation of backgrounds, and its significant influence on the subsequent development of Japan architecture, landscaping, and urban planning.
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Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area
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Dec. 1993: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Nara Prefecture Ikoma District
The Buddhist buildings in this area, including Horyu-ji Temple, have a deep connection with Prince Shotoku and were heavily influenced by the architecture of the Six Dynasties period in China. In particular, the Western Precinct of Horyu-ji Temple is internationally renowned as the oldest wooden building in the world.
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Himeji Castle
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Dec. 1993: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Hyogo Prefecture Himeji City
The Himeji castle, which looks like a Shirasagi dancing in the sky, is also known as the Betsumyo Shirasagi castle (hakurojo).
This Himeji castle is said to be a masterpiece of architectural technology from the Azuchi Momoyama and early Edo eras, and was designated as the most complete military and artistic Bunka property Dec. and Horyuji together with Japan the first World Cultural Heritage Site in 1993.
Himeji Tokugawa The castle was built by Terumasa Ieyasu's second daughter, Princess Norimasa, as his wife Ikeda. It took eight years from 1601, the year after the Battle of Sekigahara, to build the five-story, seven-story castle tower.
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
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Jul. 2004: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Wakayama Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Mie Prefecture
It spans Wakayama, Nara and Mie prefectures and is divided into three sacred sites: "Yoshino-Omine" including Mount Yoshino, "Kumano" including Kumano Sanzan and "Koyasan" including Kongobu-ji Temple, as well as pilgrimage routes (Kumano Kodo) such as the Omine Okugakemichi, Nakahechi, Iseji and Koyasan Choishimichi. The decisive factor for its inscription was that it provides exceptional evidence of the development of Japanese religious culture over more than a thousand years, proving the fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, and the exchange and development of religious culture in East Asia.
Iwami Ginzan Mine Site and its Cultural Landscape
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Jun. 2007: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Shimane Prefecture Oda City
Iwami Ginzan is Japan largest Ginzan (now closed), which reached its peak from the late Sengoku period to the early Edo period. Generally, Ginzan Kaihotsu requires a large amount of Motegi firewood and charcoal to refine the silver.
Iwami Ginzan has been Kaihotsu with minimal environmental impact thanks to proper forest management, and forests including broadleaf trees remain in the area around Ginzan. This was recognized and the mine was registered as Cultural heritage site in 2007.
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Atomic bomb dome
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Dec. 1996: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Hiroshima Prefecture Hiroshima City
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, is a memorial (a building damaged by the atomic bomb) that conveys to the present day the devastation caused by the Harako bomb dropped on Hiroshima City, Japan.
It originally opened as Hiroshima Prefecture Products Exhibition Hall, and at the time of the atomic bombing it was called Hiroshima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Hall.
It has been registered as a World Heritage Site (Cultural heritage) so that "such a tragedy will never happen again."
It is also called a 'negative World Heritage Site,' with the intention of serving as a cautionary reminder or expressing a certain wish.
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Itsukushima Shrine
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Dec. 1996: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Hiroshima Prefecture Hatsukaichi City
Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture Hatsukaichi City Miyajima Town, was registered as a cultural heritage site in 1996 in recognition of its unique shrine architecture, which combines a group of buildings built on Kaisho with the primeval forest of Yayama behind it, and the fact that many of the buildings are characteristic of the Shinden Cultural zukuri style of architecture from Heian period.
Yakushima
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Dec. 1993: Registered as a World Natural Heritage Site
Kagoshima Prefecture Kumage District
Yakushima The World Natural Heritage Area covers an area of 10,747 hectares, or approximately 20% of the total area of the
The area in question overlaps Kunitate Park and part of the Forest Ecosystem Protection Area, as well as the entirety of the Wilderness Conservation Area and the National Natural Monument (Yakushima Cedar Primitive Forest), and ranges from an evergreen forest zone with subtropical elements near the Kaigan line to cedar forest zone in the mountains and Yakshima bamboo grassland zone.
"The Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region"
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Registered as a World Cultural Site Jul. 2017
Fukuoka Prefecture Munakata City
The site was registered in recognition of the fact that rituals using many ornaments were performed in prayer for safe voyages and other such purposes, that this belief has been passed down to the present day as a belief unique to Japan, and that a group of ruins related to the powerful ancient clans who held the right to perform the rituals have been left behind, and that this belief continues to this day.
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Hidden Christian Sites in Nagasaki and the Amakusa Region
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Jun. 2018: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Nagasaki Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture Amakusa City
Since the missionary Xavier first introduced Christianity to Japan, missionaries settled in the Nagasaki and Amakusa regions, where trade with the West was thriving, and fervent Christian faith organizations were formed. However, the Edo Shogunate's policy of banning Christianity drove the missionaries out of the country. People secretly continued their Christian faith. When the Meiji government lifted the ban on Christianity, people who had kept their faith in hiding in the Goto Islands and other places built churches there as proof of their faith. Under the long-term ban of Christianity, which was rare even by global standards, for over 250 years, the history of the faith and unique traditions of the "Hidden Christians" were evaluated as having outstanding universal value, and 12 component parts that represent this were registered as World Heritage sites.
Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of the Ryukyus
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Katsuren Castle Ruins
Dec. 2000: Registered as a World Cultural Site
Okinawa Prefecture Motojima
The "Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of the Ryukyu" scattered across Okinawa Prefecture were registered as Cultural Japan Higashinan the Ryukyu Kingdom to the present day, and that they convey Okinawa 's traditional forms of faith, such as cultural worship and ancestor worship.
Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, northern Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island
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Registered as a "World Natural Heritage Site" Jul. 2021
Kagoshima Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture
Kagoshima Prefecture of Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, Okinawa Prefecture , Okinawa Motojima Hokubu, Iriomote The island is registered as a World Natural Heritage site in 2021 as a valuable area of remaining biodiversity with many globally rare and endemic species.
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