World Heritage Committee session postponed due to coronavirus

File photo taken April 23, 2018, in Kunigami in Okinawa Prefecture, shows an endemic Okinawa rail. A session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee scheduled for June 2020 in China, at which the proposed registration of a chain of Japanese southwestern islands, including the northern part of the main Okinawa island, was to be discussed, has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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