On the contrary, festivals can be a means for making tourists learn, respect, and appreciate Japan's spiritual roots, history, and traditions.
Industrial Heritage Information Center Director Koko Kato welcomed a UNESCO committee's decision to inscribe the Sado gold mines as a World Heritage site.
Japan first sought to have the Sado Gold Mines inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in an application submitted in 2021. They become Japan's 26th...
Japan must address questions on its Sado gold mines' UNESCO World Heritage Site application while ensuring its history is not distorted by Korean politics.
10 years ago Washoku was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage and has drawn attention globally as a healthy diet. But what exactly is Washoku?
Whether the Sado Gold Mines' UNESCO listing is approved, predictions are for global and local challenges in a precarious year for Japan-South Korea relations.
Culture Day is an opportunity to focus on the richness of world-class Japanese food, and an incentive to pass on this culture and see it develop...
For the first time in four years, the spectacular kaleidoscopic displays of the Kumano Great Fireworks Festival lit up the beautiful Shichiri Mihima Beach.
Inside the tunnels of the Sado gold mines, the author encounters 400 years of industrial history at a site that once led the world in gold...
NHK is not proactively correcting South Korea for passing off its film footage as that of wartime labor, even if it was taken 10 years after...
Two experts share insights on the cultural value of the Sado Island Gold Mines that, without mechanization, led the world in gold extraction volume and quality.
Onsen has been integral to Japanese culture since ancient times. The governors say that a UNESCO status for onsen would also contribute to Japan's economy.
