With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

Yakushima is for the most part round, has an area of about 504 square ... It is part of the series "Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan," which depicts various parts of the country ...

It is part of the series "Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan," which depicts various parts of the country through the perspective of the author, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University.

A panel of experts under Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency on Tuesday selected Japanese calligraphy again as a candidate for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage ... the world about the diversity ...

The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only examples of their kind in Japan ... World Heritage property of Ogimachi (471.5 ha). The buffer zones immediately surrounding ...

MIYAZAKI -- Aiming to spread the appeal of Japan's traditional kagura dance performances, the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki has ... as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage.