Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Visitors look at the former head office (L) of the state-run Imperial Steel Works, currently Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Yawata steelworks, in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2015, a day after it and other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution were added by a UNESCO committee to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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