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his pleasure in Kyoto, western Japan, on June 12, 2014, following a UNESCO advisory panel's decision to recommend historical documents at Toji Temple, called "Toji Hyakugo Monjo" (Toji Temple's 100 boxes of documents), for inclusion in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

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