Report on Places of Scenic Beauty and Historic Sites Designation Submitted

On November 16, the Council for Cultural Affairs (Commissioner: MIYATA Ryōhei) submitted a report on the following places to be designated as Places of Scenic Beauty or Historic Sites to TANAKA Makiko, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The list includes eight places such as Dōjōji temple precincts (Hidakawa-chō and Gobō City, Wakayama Prefecture), which is the setting of the legend of Anchin and Kiyohime, to be designated as Historic Sites; three places such as the Former Sekiyama Hōzō-in temple Gardens (Myōkō City, Niigata Prefecture), to be designated as Places of Scenic Beauty; three places such as Hyōtanjima (Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture) to be registered as Registered Monuments; and the Circulation and Traffic Mogami River and scenery of Aterazawa town to be selected as an Important Cultural Landscape. (Japanese)