Report on Places of Scenic Beauty and Historic Sites Designation Submitted

On June 21, 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 SHIMOMURA Hakubun, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. The list includes two places such as the Hiunkaku Garden (Takamatsu City) to be appointed as Places of Scenic Beauty; 11 places such as the Makimuku Site (Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture), which is considered to be the most promising site for the theory that states that the Yamataikoku was located in the Kinai region, to be appointed as Historic Sites; 13 places such as four buildings of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Sites, including the Former Shiroyama National School Buildings, (Nagasaki City), to be registered as Registered Monuments; and three places such as the Sakatani Sakamoto Terraced Rice Fields and Rural Landscape (Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture) to be selected as Important Cultural Landscape. (Japanese)