Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Tourists flock to Glover House, the former residence and office of Scottish merchant Thomas Glover in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, and the country's oldest Western-style wooden residence, 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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