Report on Places of Scenic Beauty and Historic Sites Designation Submitted

On November 18, the Council for Cultural Affairs (Commissioner: NISHIHARA Suzuko) submitted a report on the following places to be designated as Places of Scenic Beauty or Historic Sites to NAKAGAWA Masaharu, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The list includes five places such as Jōdogahama (Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture), damaged by the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, to be designated as Places of Scenic Beauty; and eight places such as the precinct of Iwashimizu Hachimangū shrine (Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture), where Imperial family members and aristocrats visited since the Heian period, to be designated as Historic Sites; three places such as Moriaishi teien (Miyako City), constructed by a wealthy merchant of the Sanriku region, to be registered as Registered Monuments; and the cultural landscape of Shinkamigotō kitauome (Shinkamigotō Town, Nagasaki Prefecture), where a fishing port and farming village coexist in a narrow area on the island, to be selected as an Important Cultural Landscape. Meanwhile, the Council recommended the withdrawal of the designation as Registered Tangible Cultural Properties for six structures such as Rokkakudō, Izura Institute of Art and Culture, Ibaraki University, damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Japanese)