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CHINA-BEIJING-CENTRAL AXIS-UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE-LYU ZHOU (CN)

(240727) -- BEIJING, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lyu Zhou is pictured at the Altar of the God of Agriculture in Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2024. Lyu Zhou is the group leader for text compiling on the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage application team and director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University. Lyu and his team have been dedicated to explicate to the world the unique heritage value of the Beijing Central Axis -- a building ensemble exhibiting the ideal order of the Chinese capital. To his great joy, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Saturday announced the inclusion of the Beijing Central Axis into its world heritage list. The central axis is the backbone of old Beijing, representing the highest achievement in the planning, design and construction of an ancient capital of Eastern civilization. It is 7.8 kilometers long, starting from the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and ending with the Drum Tower an

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CHINA-BEIJING-CENTRAL AXIS-UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE-LYU ZHOU (CN)

(240727) -- BEIJING, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lyu Zhou is pictured at the Altar of the God of Agriculture in Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2024. Lyu Zhou is the group leader for text compiling on the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage application team and director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University. Lyu and his team have been dedicated to explicate to the world the unique heritage value of the Beijing Central Axis -- a building ensemble exhibiting the ideal order of the Chinese capital. To his great joy, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Saturday announced the inclusion of the Beijing Central Axis into its world heritage list. The central axis is the backbone of old Beijing, representing the highest achievement in the planning, design and construction of an ancient capital of Eastern civilization. It is 7.8 kilometers long, starting from the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and ending with the Drum Tower an

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CHINA-BEIJING-CENTRAL AXIS-UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE-LYU ZHOU (CN)

(240727) -- BEIJING, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lyu Zhou is pictured at the Divine Granary Complex of the Altar of the God of Agriculture in Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2024. Lyu Zhou is the group leader for text compiling on the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage application team and director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University. Lyu and his team have been dedicated to explicate to the world the unique heritage value of the Beijing Central Axis -- a building ensemble exhibiting the ideal order of the Chinese capital. To his great joy, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Saturday announced the inclusion of the Beijing Central Axis into its world heritage list. The central axis is the backbone of old Beijing, representing the highest achievement in the planning, design and construction of an ancient capital of Eastern civilization. It is 7.8 kilometers long, starting from the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and

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CHINA-BEIJING-CENTRAL AXIS-UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE-LYU ZHOU (CN)

(240727) -- BEIJING, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lyu Zhou is pictured at the Altar of the God of Agriculture in Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2024. Lyu Zhou is the group leader for text compiling on the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage application team and director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University. Lyu and his team have been dedicated to explicate to the world the unique heritage value of the Beijing Central Axis -- a building ensemble exhibiting the ideal order of the Chinese capital. To his great joy, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Saturday announced the inclusion of the Beijing Central Axis into its world heritage list. The central axis is the backbone of old Beijing, representing the highest achievement in the planning, design and construction of an ancient capital of Eastern civilization. It is 7.8 kilometers long, starting from the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and ending with the Drum Tower an

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Ancient book integration project underway in China's Shandong

STORY: Ancient book integration project underway in China's Shandong DATELINE: July 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:03 LOCATION: JINAN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Shandong University 2. various of the office of the Global Integration of Ancient Chinese Books project 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHAN CHENGBIN, Head of cataloging team, Global Integration of Ancient Chinese Books project 4. various of the team 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG CHENGLUE, Head of selecting and compiling team, Global Integration of Ancient Chinese Books project STORYLINE: An ancient book integration project is underway in east China's Shandong Province to discover ancient Chinese literature overseas and provide more literary support for Chinese cultural construction and international cultural exchanges. The Global Integration of Ancient Chinese Books project, spanning a decade, was launched by Shandong University in 2017. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHAN CHENGBIN, Head of cataloging team, Global Integration of Ancient Chinese

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Xinhua Headlines: 17-year-long support for compilation of China's ancient artworks

(221219) -- BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Visitors look at 3D-printed full-size replicas of statues from the Yungang Grottoes during an exhibition featuring China's achievements in compiling "A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings" at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 29, 2022. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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Xinhua Headlines: 17-year-long support for compilation of China's ancient artworks

(221219) -- BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Visitors look at exhibits during an exhibition featuring China's achievements in compiling "A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings" at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 29, 2022. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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Xinhua Headlines: 17-year-long support for compilation of China's ancient artworks

(221219) -- BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A visitor looks at exhibits displayed at the initial release of China's achievements in compiling "A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings" in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 12, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

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Xinhua Headlines: 17-year-long support for compilation of China's ancient artworks

(221219) -- BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Visitors look at exhibits during a special exhibition featuring China's achievements in compiling "A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings" in Jiaxing of east China's Zhejiang Province, June 30, 2022. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)

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17-year-long effort of compiling collection of ancient Chinese paintings bears fruit

STORY: 17-year-long effort of compiling collection of ancient Chinese paintings bears fruit DATELINE: Dec. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:34 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of classical Chinese paintings at the exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG XIAOSONG, Deputy dean of School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIN XIAOMING, Chinese Ancient Calligraphy and Painting Research Center, Zhejiang University 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): WANG XIAOSONG, Deputy dean of School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): YUAN YACHUN, Chief editor of Zhejiang University Press STORYLINE: At an exhibition at Zhejiang University, east China, 500 high-quality prints of classical Chinese paintings are on display. The exhibition features part of China's achievements in compiling "A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings." It is a state project that involves at least 12,405 pieces (sets) of Chinese paintings from over 26

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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 25 Kyodo - Undated file photo shows Naoto Morimura, a University of Tokyo professor who will take charge of compiling manuals for doctors to help them cope with a large number of patients in the event of accidents or attacks, among other emergencies, during the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 19, 2014, shows part of the official record of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. On Sept. 9, the Imperial Household Agency released the 61-volume record after spending 24 years compiling it. (Pool photo)

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows the building containing the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On Sept. 9, 2014, the agency released the official record of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. The department spent 24 years compiling the 61-volume record.

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Nov. 22, 1987, shows Emperor Hirohito standing in a garden of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On Sept. 9, 2014, the Imperial Household Agency released the official record of the 87-year life of the emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, after spending 24 years compiling the 61-volume record.

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Compiling Mihama fault probe results delayed

NAGOYA, Japan - A team from the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines earth layers near the No. 3 reactor of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama nuclear power plant in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, in December 2013. KEPCO appears to have given up on completing a conclusive report on the fault lines by the April 2014 deadline and submission of the report to the NRA is also expected to be delayed, a source familiar with the matter told Kyodo News on April 23, 2014.

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Egyptian sumo wrestler visits home

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi (C), whose real name is Abdelrahman Ahmed Shaalan, is welcomed when he held a lecture in Cairo on Aug. 13, 2013. The first sekitori from Africa has been praised in Japan for compiling a winning record in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July while fasting from dawn to dusk on the days the tournament overlapped with Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.

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Egyptian sumo wrestler visits home

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi (L), whose real name is Abdelrahman Ahmed Shaalan, holds a lecture in Cairo on Aug. 13, 2013. The first sekitori from Africa has been praised in Japan for compiling a winning record in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July while fasting from dawn to dusk on the days the tournament overlapped with Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.

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Kan hints at giving up on formulating tax reform by next March

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 14, 2010. Kan indicated that he would give up on compiling the details of a tax reform plan by the March 31 end of fiscal 2010.

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Residents compiling budgets as part of greater local autonomy

TOTTORI, Japan - Chizu town's ''100-man committee'' in Tottori Prefecture holds a public hearing Dec. 14, 2008, to draw up plans, including budgets, to revitalize the western Japan town.

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Gov't not to set income cap for cash benefit plan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 11. Yosano said he is compiling a draft for a cash benefit program under the government's new economic stimulus package in line with Prime Minister Taro Aso's call on high-income earners to decline benefits.

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Panel to urge Japan, China to work together on environment

BEIJING, China - The seventh meeting of the New Japan-China Friendship 21st Century Committee ended two days of talks in Beijing on Jan. 28 aimed at compiling a list of recommendations for the two governments on ways to enhance ties. Yotaro Kobayashi (L), chief corporate adviser at Fuji Xerox Co., who headed the Japanese delegation, and Zheng Bijian (R), chair of the China Reform Forum, a nongovernmental academic group, met the press after the meeting. The committee will hold its last meeting to complete the list in Japan at the end of this year.

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Panel calls for maximum spending cuts in FY 2008 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro (R), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, submits a recommendation to Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 19. The recommendation calls for ''maximum spending cuts'' in compiling the fiscal 2008 state budget in areas such as social security as part of efforts to put its debt-ridden finances in order.

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Panel eyes target to curb social security spending in state budget

TOKYO, Japan - Keimei Kaizuka (R), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, hands a written recommendation to Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki at the Finance Ministry on June 6. The advisory panel urged that the government to take steps to curb swelling social security-related expenditures by setting targets when compiling the state budget for fiscal 2006.

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Key panel draws up FY 2004 budget guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi presides over a meeting of his Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy at his office July 29. The panel drew up basic guidelines for the fiscal 2004 budget calling for outlays to be kept to the size of fiscal 2003, clearing one of the first steps in the budget-compiling process for the 2004 fiscal year.

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Koizumi orders supplementary budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi walks into his office to preside over a regular cabinet session Sept. 7. He instructed his ministers to begin compiling a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year.

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Koizumi repeats pledge to maintain 30-tril.-yen debt cap

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Sept. 4. Koizumi repeated his pledge to limit fresh government bond issuance to 30 trillion yen in the current fiscal year even when compiling a supplementary budget.

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Mori plans to reshuffle cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori conducts an interview with reporters at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on Sept. 13. Mori said he plans to reshuffle his cabinet to prepare for the reduction in the number of government ministries in January 2001 before compiling the fiscal 2001 budget in late December this year.

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Photo of freed Kyrgyz interpreter for abducted Japanese

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - This photo, taken Oct. 25 in Bishkek, shows Kyrgyz interpreter Omurbek Zhanakeev, who was freed along with four Japanese mining engineers on Oct. 24 after being held hostage for two months by Islamic rebels in Central Asia. Kyrgyz-born Zhanakeev, 35, started learning Japanese in Moscow while studying mining. He stayed in Japan for a year from September 1993. After returning to Kyrgyzstan, he participated in establishing a Japanese culture center and the compiling of a Kyrgyz-Japanese dictionary.

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Torrential rain hits Niigata

Torrential rains in northern Niigata Prefecture flood more than 14,000 homes and cut the electricity in some 29,000 homes in the city of Niigata on Aug. 4. Hourly rainfall measured 97 millimeters, the heaviest since the Meteorological Agency started compiling data in 1886. The photo taken Wednesday morning shows the farming village of Sasakami sitting under water after a river overflowed and broke a dike the previous day.

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Panel eyes target to curb social security spending in state budg

TOKYO, Japan - Keimei Kaizuka (R), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, hands a written recommendation to Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki at the Finance Ministry on June 6. The advisory panel urged that the government to take steps to curb swelling social security-related expenditures by setting targets when compiling the state budget for fiscal 2006. (Kyodo)

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Panel calls for maximum spending cuts in FY 2008 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro (R), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, submits a recommendation to Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 19. The recommendation calls for ''maximum spending cuts'' in compiling the fiscal 2008 state budget in areas such as social security as part of efforts to put its debt-ridden finances in order. (Kyodo)

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Gov't not to set income cap for cash benefit plan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 11. Yosano said he is compiling a draft for a cash benefit program under the government's new economic stimulus package in line with Prime Minister Taro Aso's call on high-income earners to decline benefits. (Kyodo)

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Mori plans to reshuffle cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori conducts an interview with reporters at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on Sept. 13. Mori said he plans to reshuffle his cabinet to prepare for the reduction in the number of government ministries in January 2001 before compiling the fiscal 2001 budget in late December this year.

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PM Abe at press conference

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, a day after the ruling coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party won a sweeping victory in the upper house election. Abe said he would order his economic minister to begin compiling stimulus measures to support the domestic economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe at press conference

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, a day after the ruling coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party won a sweeping victory in the upper house election. Abe said he would order his economic minister to begin compiling stimulus measures to support the domestic economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe at press conference

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, a day after the ruling coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party won a sweeping victory in the upper house election. Abe said he would order his economic minister to begin compiling stimulus measures to support the domestic economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe at press conference

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, a day after the ruling coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party won a sweeping victory in the upper house election. Abe said he would order his economic minister to begin compiling stimulus measures to support the domestic economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe at press conference

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, a day after the ruling coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party won a sweeping victory in the upper house election. Abe said he would order his economic minister to begin compiling stimulus measures to support the domestic economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe to order compilation of stimulus measures

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, a day after the LDP's victory in the upper house election. Abe is prepared to order the economic ministry on July 12 to begin compiling stimulus measures to support the domestic economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Meeting of Administrative Reform Promotion Council held

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) addresses a meeting of the Administrative Reform Promotion Council at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2015. Abe said the government should not draw criticism that taxpayers' money is misspent in compiling the national budget for fiscal 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe contributes video message to people seeking constitutional change

Photo taken Nov. 10, 2015, shows a video message from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, contributed to a Tokyo meeting of people seeking constitutional amendment. In the message, Abe said, "It will lead to carving out a path to a new era if we have a spirit of compiling a Constitution by ourselves." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to play leading role in compiling rules over Arctic Ocean

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) attends a meeting on Oct. 16, 2015, in Tokyo, at which the premier showed the government's willingness to play a leading role in compiling international rules over resource exploitation and other issues concerning the Arctic Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Undated file photo shows Naoto Morimura, a University of Tokyo professor who will take charge of compiling manuals for doctors to help them cope with a large number of patients in the event of accidents or attacks, among other emergencies, during the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Rights group seeks LGBT-inclusive curriculum

Kanae Doi, Japan director of Human Rights Watch, works at her office in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2016. The international rights body is urging the government to give ample consideration to sexual minority students in compiling educational guidelines and teacher training programs so they can be protected from harassment and bullying at school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel to urge Japan, China to work together on environment

BEIJING, China - The seventh meeting of the New Japan-China Friendship 21st Century Committee ended two days of talks in Beijing on Jan. 28 aimed at compiling a list of recommendations for the two governments on ways to enhance ties. Yotaro Kobayashi (L), chief corporate adviser at Fuji Xerox Co., who headed the Japanese delegation, and Zheng Bijian (R), chair of the China Reform Forum, a nongovernmental academic group, met the press after the meeting. The committee will hold its last meeting to complete the list in Japan at the end of this year. (Kyodo)

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Kan hints at giving up on formulating tax reform by next March

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 14, 2010. Kan indicated that he would give up on compiling the details of a tax reform plan by the March 31 end of fiscal 2010. (Kyodo)

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows the building containing the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On Sept. 9, 2014, the agency released the official record of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. The department spent 24 years compiling the 61-volume record. (Kyodo)

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Nov. 22, 1987, shows Emperor Hirohito standing in a garden of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On Sept. 9, 2014, the Imperial Household Agency released the official record of the 87-year life of the emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, after spending 24 years compiling the 61-volume record. (Kyodo)

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Key panel draws up FY 2004 budget guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi presides over a meeting of his Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy at his office July 29. The panel drew up basic guidelines for the fiscal 2004 budget calling for outlays to be kept to the size of fiscal 2003, clearing one of the first steps in the budget-compiling process for the 2004 fiscal year. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi orders supplementary budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi walks into his office to preside over a regular cabinet session Sept. 7. He instructed his ministers to begin compiling a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year.