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Nirayama reverberatory furnace visited by ICOMOS

TOKYO, Japan - Experts of International Council on Monuments and Sites, the advisory body of the World Heritage Committee for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO, inspect the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014.

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Man hails addition of furnace in central Japan to World Heritage list

A man shows off a flag on July 6, 2015, commemorating the addition of the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, to the World Cultural Heritage list by a UNESCO committee a day earlier along with 22 other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing

Visitors at the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in the central Japanese city of Izunokuni walk in the rain on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the facility as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Items related to builder of Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces

Takayuki Hashimoto of the Egawa Bunko foundation on June 23, 2015, in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, explains items related to Egawa Hidetatsu who led the construction of the Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces completed in 1857 in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People visit Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces

People visit the Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on June 23, 2015. The facility completed in 1857 is one of the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" recommended for addition to the World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Participants in cycling tour pose before World Heritage furnace

Participants in a cycling tour along the Kano River on the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, pose on Sept. 26, 2015, in front of the Nirayama reverberatory furnace, an old Japanese industrial site added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list last July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Meiji industrial sites endorsed for World Heritage listing

File photo taken in September 2013 shows the Nirayama reflection furnace in the central Japan city of Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture. The furnace is among the 23 "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" that a UNESCO advisory panel has recommended for World Heritage status. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nirayama reverberatory furnace visited by ICOMOS

TOKYO, Japan - Experts of International Council on Monuments and Sites, the advisory body of the World Heritage Committee for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO, inspect the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014. (Kyodo)