Kyoto temple documents to be recommended for UNESCO listing

Kyoto temple documents to be recommended for UNESCO listing

KYOTO, Japan - Yoshifumi Takaishi, head of the Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, expresses his pleasure in Kyoto, western Japan, on June 12, 2014, following a UNESCO advisory panel's decision to recommend historical documents at Toji Temple, called "Toji Hyakugo Monjo" (Toji Temple's 100 boxes of documents), for inclusion in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. (Kyodo)

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