UNESCO register adds archive of pre-modern Japan mission

UNESCO register adds archive of pre-modern Japan mission

SENDAI, Japan - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama answers a reporter's question at the Sendai city hall in Miyagi Prefecture on June 19, 2013. A collection of materials about Keicho Mission, a 17th century mission sent under the order of Sendai feudal lord Date Masamune to the Vatican and Spain, has been selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World registry, the Japanese education ministry said the same day.

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