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Japan to ask UNESCO to list remote islands, Christian sites

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 20 Kyodo - File photo taken in June 2016 in Kunigami village in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa shows an Okinawa rail, a rare bird species living there. Tokyo will submit a proposal to UNESCO to add a number of islands in the country's southwest, including those of Okinawa, and a number of sites linked to the history of persecuted Christians to the natural and cultural sites on the World Heritage list.

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - An Okinawa Rail, a critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa, is suspended inside its cage to maintain upright posture, a measure to help in its rehabilitation after its spinal cord was damaged, at a facility run by a nonprofit group protecting wild animals in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 27, 2013. The bird, believed to have been hit by a car and found immobile on a road in the summer of 2011, has since been recovering and now undergoes walking training at the facility.

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Population of Okinawa Rail recovering

KUNIGAMI, Japan - Experts discuss a 10-year plan to preserve the Okinawa Rail, a flightless bird native to northern Okinawa Island and known locally as the Yambaru Kuina, at a meeting in December 2013 in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Population of Okinawa Rail recovering

KUNIGAMI, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows one of the artificially incubated Okinawa Rail birds displayed at an exhibition facility in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture.

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1,221 bird species threatened with extinction

TOKYO, Japan - The Okinawa rail, a nearly flightless bird endemic to Okinawa island, is among 1,221 bird species considered threatened with extinction in a report released by BirdLife International, a bird conservation group based in Cambridge, England. The population of Okinawa rail is estimated at between 1,200 and 1,680, confined to the Yambaru area in northern Okinawa. According to BirdLife, 83 bird species in Japan are threatened or near threatened with extinction out of approximately 10,000 bird species in the world.

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(3)1st postwar railway debuts in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa's first postwar railway train opened to the public on Aug. 10 runs in the capital city of Naha. The two-car Okinawa Urban Monorail, dubbed ''Yui Rail,'' links Naha airport in the city center with the Shuri district in the eastern part of the city over the distance of 12.9 kilometers in 27 minutes.

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(2)1st postwar railway debuts in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - The first run of Okinawa's first postwar railway service is about to depart from Naha Airport Station on Aug. 10. The two-seat Okinawa Urban Monorail, dubbed ''Yui Rail,'' links Naha airport in the city center with the Shuri district in the eastern part of the city.

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(1)1st postwar railway debuts in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Prefectural government officials and railway company executives celebrate the inauguration of Okinawa's first postwar railway service in a gala ceremony on Aug. 10. The two-car Okinawa Urban Monorail, dubbed ''Yui Rail,'' links Naha airport in the city center with the Shuri district in the eastern part of the city.

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Monorail service to debut in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Governor Keiichi Inamine (L) gives an explanation to Hiroyuki Hosoda (R), state minister in charge of Okinawa, during their trial ride on a monorail car in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 9. The ''Yui Rail'' service is due to debut on Aug. 10.

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Microchips to be implanted into pet cats in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - The Environment Ministry plans to begin implanting microchips into pet cats, which will carry information about the cat and its owner, in a bid to protect endangered birds that are increasingly being preyed upon by stray cats. The ministry said Jan. 21 it hopes the move will protect endangered species such as the rare flightless bird, the Okinawa Rail (yambarukuina - in file photo), and the Okinawa Woodpecker (noguchigera), which live in the Yambaru region in Okinawa.

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1,221 bird species threatened with extinction

TOKYO, Japan - The Okinawa rail, a nearly flightless bird endemic to Okinawa island, is among 1,221 bird species considered threatened with extinction in a report released by BirdLife International, a bird conservation group based in Cambridge, England. The population of Okinawa rail is estimated at between 1,200 and 1,680, confined to the Yambaru area in northern Okinawa. According to BirdLife, 83 bird species in Japan are threatened or near threatened with extinction out of approximately 10,000 bird species in the world. (Kyodo)

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Home of Okinawa rail to be designated as national park

Photo taken June 20, 2016, shows an Okinawa rail, a rare species of bird living in the Yambaru area in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, which will be designated as a national park in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly designated national park in Okinawa

A veterinarian tends to an Okinawa rail, designated a Japanese natural treasure, in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 30, 2016, after it was injured in a traffic accident. Known as the home of the Okinawa rail, the Yambaru region in the northern part of the prefecture's main island was designated as Japan's 33rd national park on June 20. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Endangered bird at newly designated nat'l park in Okinawa

An Okinawa rail, designated a Japanese natural treasure, is pictured in the Yambaru region of Okinawa Prefecture on June 29, 2016. The region was designated as Japan's 33rd national park on June 20. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Road accidents threaten flightless Okinawan bird

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied undated file photo shows an Okinawa Rail in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa is under increasing threat from road traffic, with a record high number of accidents so far in 2011, the Environment Ministry's Yambaru Wildlife Conservation Center said on Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo courtesy of Environment Ministry)(PHOTO NOT FOR SALE)(Kyodo)

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - An Okinawa Rail, a critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa, is suspended inside its cage to maintain upright posture, a measure to help in its rehabilitation after its spinal cord was damaged, at a facility run by a nonprofit group protecting wild animals in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 27, 2013. The bird, believed to have been hit by a car and found immobile on a road in the summer of 2011, has since been recovering and now undergoes walking training at the facility. (Kyodo)

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Southwestern Japan islands set to become World Heritage site

An Okinawa rail, a species of bird endemic to Japan's Okinawa Island, is pictured at a facility in Kunigami, a village in the northern part of the island, on May 11, 2021. A UNESCO advisory panel recommended the previous day that a chain of islands in southwestern Japan with dense subtropical forests, including the northern part of Okinawa Island, be added to the list of natural World Heritage sites.

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Southwestern Japan islands set to become World Heritage site

An Okinawa rail, a species of bird endemic to Japan's Okinawa Island, is pictured at a facility in Kunigami, a village in the northern part of the island, on May 11, 2021. A UNESCO advisory panel recommended the previous day that a chain of islands in southwestern Japan with dense subtropical forests, including the northern part of Okinawa Island, be added to the list of natural World Heritage sites.

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World Heritage Committee session postponed due to coronavirus

File photo taken April 23, 2018, in Kunigami in Okinawa Prefecture, shows an endemic Okinawa rail. A session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee scheduled for June 2020 in China, at which the proposed registration of a chain of Japanese southwestern islands, including the northern part of the main Okinawa island, was to be discussed, has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa rail

Photo taken on April 23, 2018, shows an Okinawa rail in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yui Rail in Okinawa

Photo taken June 21, 2018, shows monorail cars of Yui Rail operated by Okinawa Urban Monorail Inc. running in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, with the East China Sea in the background. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yui Rail in Okinawa

Photo taken on June 21, 2018, in Naha in Japan's southern island prefecture of Okinawa shows monorail cars of Yui Rail operated by Okinawa Urban Monorail Inc. and a statue of a traditional "shisa" lion, believed in local folklore to fend off evil spirits. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa rail

Photo taken on April 23, 2018 shows an Okinawa rail in Kunigami on Okinawa Island, southern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)1st postwar railway debuts in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - The first run of Okinawa's first postwar railway service is about to depart from Naha Airport Station on Aug. 10. The two-seat Okinawa Urban Monorail, dubbed ''Yui Rail,'' links Naha airport in the city center with the Shuri district in the eastern part of the city. (Kyodo)

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(1)1st postwar railway debuts in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Prefectural government officials and railway company executives celebrate the inauguration of Okinawa's first postwar railway service in a gala ceremony on Aug. 10. The two-car Okinawa Urban Monorail, dubbed ''Yui Rail,'' links Naha airport in the city center with the Shuri district in the eastern part of the city. (Kyodo)

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(3)1st postwar railway debuts in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa's first postwar railway train opened to the public on Aug. 10 runs in the capital city of Naha. The two-car Okinawa Urban Monorail, dubbed ''Yui Rail,'' links Naha airport in the city center with the Shuri district in the eastern part of the city over the distance of 12.9 kilometers in 27 minutes. (Kyodo)

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Monorail service to debut in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Governor Keiichi Inamine (L) gives an explanation to Hiroyuki Hosoda (R), state minister in charge of Okinawa, during their trial ride on a monorail car in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 9. The ''Yui Rail'' service is due to debut on Aug. 10. (Kyodo)

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Microchips to be implanted into pet cats in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - The Environment Ministry plans to begin implanting microchips into pet cats, which will carry information about the cat and its owner, in a bid to protect endangered birds that are increasingly being preyed upon by stray cats. The ministry said Jan. 21 it hopes the move will protect endangered species such as the rare flightless bird, the Okinawa Rail (yambarukuina - in file photo), and the Okinawa Woodpecker (noguchigera), which live in the Yambaru region in Okinawa. (Kyodo)