Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing

Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing

Visitors at the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in the central Japanese city of Izunokuni walk in the rain on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the facility as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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