Hiraizumi in northeast Japan to be World Heritage site

Hiraizumi in northeast Japan to be World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - Photo taken May 7, 2011, shows Chusonji, a Buddhist temple, in Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture. An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended registering the historic area in northeastern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands off Tokyo as World Heritage sites, the Japanese government said the same day. (Kyodo)

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