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Citizens of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, celebrate the addition of the Asuka-Fujiwara archaeological sites in Nara Prefecture to the World Heritage List on Sunday.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ Asuka-Fujiwara sites added to UNESCO list
Including natural heritage sites, the total number of World Heritage properties in Japan now stands at 27.
The Doyu no Warito open-cut site, regarded as the symbol of the Sado Island Gold Mines in Sado, Niigata Prefecture
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2026
UNESCO panel urges Japan to improve exhibits at Sado Gold Mines
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee made the request as it adopted a resolution on the conservation status of the gold mines during a meeting in Busan, South Korea.
Cafe owner Takahiro Yamazaki hopes an expected registration of the Asuka-Fujiwara ancient capitals in Nara Prefecture as a UNESCO World Heritage site will give more people a chance to think about Japan's ancient times.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 20, 2026
Nara cafe owner hopeful about ancient capitals¡¯ World Heritage listing
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee¡¯ is deliberating in Busan, South Korea, whether to add the Asuka-Fujiwara ancient capitals to its list of World Heritage sites.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 20, 2026
U.N. to list more sites as ¡®in danger¡¯ from conflict or climate change
Among them are a biblical site, Lebanese castles, an antelope migration path and the world¡¯s deepest lake.
The Sado Island Gold Mines in Niigata Prefecture were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2024.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2026
UNESCO panel to urge Japan to reform exhibits at gold mines on Sado Island
The draft was compiled based on South Korea¡¯s argument that people from the Korean Peninsula were forced to provide labor at the mining complex during World War II.
Transcarpathia is a western Ukrainian region and one of the country's most ethnically diverse areas, populated by groups including Hutsuls, seen here in Yasynya, as well as Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks and Ukrainians.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2026
Language, power and the price of entry
The same logic that protects Hungarians in Ukraine leaves Russian in the cold. Language policy, it turns out, has a foreign policy.
The Asuka-Fujiwara archaeological sites in western Japan have been recommended to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list.
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2026
Asuka-Fujiwara ancient capitals to join World Heritage list
A UNESCO advisory panel has recommended adding the archaeological sites in western Japan to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list.
Mine-Akiyoshidai, a karst plateau in Yamaguchi Prefecture, has been named Â鶹´«Ã½ 11th UNESCO Global Geopark.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2026
Karst plateau in western Japan named UNESCO Global Geopark
Mine-Akiyoshidai, in the city of Mine in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is the 11th UNESCO Global Geopark in Japan.
A craftsman weaves fabric on a traditional hand loom inside a workshop in Tangail, Bangladesh, on March 2.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 12, 2026
Bangladesh sari weaving tradition hangs by a thread
A shift to automated looms, evolving fashion choices, unstable yarn prices and a lack of government support have squeezed weavers of the UNESCO-recognized garments at every turn.
Documented evidence shows schools that implement smartphone-free policies see measurable improvements in academic performance and student well-being, even within a single semester.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 19, 2025
It¡¯s time for Japan to ban smartphones in schools
Excessive screen time creates addiction comparable to substance abuse, but it is more nefarious in that it impacts people in unseen ways, unlike tobacco or alcohol.
The Murakami Festival, held in the city of Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, has been added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list along with five other items from Japan.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2025
Six Japanese items added to UNESCO intangible heritage list
Four of the six new items will be registered under the category of ¡°Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan.¡±
The open-air bath at Tsurunoyu Hot Springs in Nyuto Onsenkyo, in Semboku, Akita Prefecture
JAPAN / Society
Nov 29, 2025
Kagura and onsen culture to be recommended for UNESCO heritage
A government panel has chosen kagura, a Japanese traditional performing art, and onsen hot spring culture as candidates for UNESCO intangible cultural heritage designation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, on Sept. 1. Xi unveiled a new diplomatic framework, the Global Governance Initiative, which Wang called ¡°a blueprint for humanity¡¯s shared future.¡±
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 28, 2025
Beijing¡¯s ¡®globalist¡¯ agenda under Trump 2.0
China is leveraging the Global Governance Initiative to expand its influence in the U.N. and Global South as U.S. retrenchment under Trump creates a leadership vacuum.
Autographed manuscripts from ¡°Fushikaden,¡± noh master Zeami¡¯s 15th-century treatise on the traditional Japanese theater performances
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2025
Japan to push noh master Zeami¡¯s ¡®Fushikaden¡¯ for UNESCO listing
The Executive Board of the U.N. agency is expected to review the bid in spring 2027.
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" ¡ª all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 16, 2025
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ¡®details are everything¡¯
As part of a new UNESCO initiative, the elite Relais & Chateau hospitality group will empower its Japan-based members to preserve the country¡¯s ¡°omotenashi¡± culture.
A Cambodian guide (left) gives an explanation about the exhibit as tourists look at portrait photos of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2025
Cambodia marks UNESCO recognition of Khmer Rouge sites as places of ¡®peace and reflection¡¯
The Khmer Rouge sites mark Cambodia¡¯s fifth World Heritage listing, and is the country¡¯s first modern-era nomination and among the first globally tied to recent conflict.
A public school teacher leads the class during the first day of in-person classes, at a school flooded due to high tide, in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines, in August 2022.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Jul 10, 2025
Philippines struggling to ready underfunded schools for climate hazards
Teachers want the government to do more than tweak the school calendar, and also invest in infrastructure that will make schools resilient to heat and storms.
Critics of plans to build a condominium on a vacant lot in the Komachi area of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, argue that valuable relics may be buried beneath the site.
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2025
Development project at historic Kamakura site raises concerns
Citizens and history researchers are urging authorities to halt construction, expressing concerns that valuable relics may be buried beneath the site.
UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2025
Zojoji Buddhist scriptures added to UNESCO Memory of the World
The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Â鶹´«Ã½ Edo era, and donated to the temple.
According to the Cultural Affairs Agency, shod¨­ is defined as the act of writing kanji and kana characters using traditional brushstrokes and techniques.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2025
Japan to again propose calligraphy for UNESCO heritage list
The government is expected to submit the fresh proposal to UNESCO by the end of the month.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.
How Â鶹´«Ã½ racehorses find second careers away from the track
TCC Therapy Park is supported financially by racing organizations as well as donations from members of the public.
Will Takaichi¡¯s consumption tax cut break the LDP?
Despite months of debate, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi failed to gain consensus within the Liberal Democratic Party on a two-year reduction of the consumption tax.

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