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Children celebrate World Heritage Status for Hashino Blast Furnace

Children celebrate the decision to grant UNESCO World Heritage status to the Hashino Blast Furnace in Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan on July 6, 2015. It is one of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Tourists visit the ruins of the Hashino iron mining and smelting site, the birthplace of modern Japanese iron industry, in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2015, a day after it and other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution were added by a UNESCO committee to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing

People celebrate in front of the city government office of Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the city's Hashino iron mining and smelting site as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. Around 200 children also gathered there to celebrate the decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruins of Japan's oldest blast furnace await UNESCO heritage listing

Kumeo Otaki, head of a group aiming to hand down the history of Kamaishi as the birthplace of Japan's modern iron industry, stands by the ruins of the Hashino Iron Mining and Smelting Site in the northeastern Japanese city in Iwate Prefecture on June 14, 2015. The place is one of the recommended sites of the country's modern industrial revolution for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Meiji industrial sites endorsed for World Heritage listing

People in the northeastern Japan city of Kamaishi observe the site of the Hashino shaft furnace on May 4, 2015. It is among the 23 facilities in the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" that a UNESCO advisory panel has recommended as a World Heritage site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Meiji industrial sites endorsed for World Heritage listing

People in the northeastern Japan city of Kamaishi observe the site of the Hashino shaft furnace on May 4, 2015. It is among the 23 facilities in the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" that a UNESCO advisory panel has recommended as a World Heritage site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo