Abe visits UNESCO-registered Tomioka Silk Mill

TOMIOKA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R, front row) tours a silk-reeling plant at the Tomioka Silk Mill, a newly added UNESCO World Heritage site built in 1872, on July 23, 2014. Abe visited the site, which also includes timber-frame brick masonry buildings for cocoon warehouses, to help promote the historic factory building in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, to foreign tourists. (Pool photo)

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