The National Museum of Western Art Designated as World Heritage Site

On May 17, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), an advisory body to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that conducts preliminary inspections to determine whether sites should be inscribed on the World Heritage List, recommended the inclusion of Le Corbusier’s architectural works, comprising seventeen properties in seven countries, including the National Museum of Western Art (Taitō Ward, Tokyo) on the World Heritage List. In response, on July 17, the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, held in Istanbul, Turkey, decided to inscribe them on the World Heritage List as Cultural Heritage Sites. (Japanese)