Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Tourists listen to a guide's explanation during a tour of the Manda pit at the Miike coal mine in Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, 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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