World Heritage Committee session postponed due to coronavirus

World Heritage Committee session postponed due to coronavirus

File photo taken April 28, 2018 shows an Amami rabbit on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. 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 Amami-Oshima was to be discussed, has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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