Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

Visitors view the first headquarters office (back) built in 1899 of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., on April 17, 2015, from a passageway newly built for visitors to see its exterior in the southwestern Japanese city of Kitakyushu. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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