Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

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Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (??????????? ?????????????, Meiji nihon no sangy?kakumei isan: seitetsu, tekk?, z?sen, sekitan sangy?) are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods, and are part of the industrial heritage of Japan. In 2009 the monuments were submitted jointly for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria ii, iii, and iv. The sites were accepted at the 39th UNESCO World Heritage session.

Eight areas are registered, with thirty component sites:

Video Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

(1) Yamaguchi: Hagi

Hagi proto-industrial sites and Tokugawa period cultural setting; Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture:

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(2) Kagoshima: Kagoshima

Sh?seikan pioneering factory complex; Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture:

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(3) Saga: Saga

Mietsu shipyard; Saga, Saga Prefecture:

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(4) Iwate: Kamaishi

Hashino iron mining and smelting site; Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture:

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(5) Nagasaki: Nagasaki

Nagasaki shipyard facilities, coal mining islands and associated sites; Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture:

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(6) Yamaguchi: Shimonoseki

Shimonoseki battle site and Treaty lighthouse; Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture:

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(7) Fukuoka: ?muta; Kumamoto: Arao, Uki

Miike coal mines, railway and ports; ?muta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Arao and Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture:

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(8) Fukuoka: Kitaky?sh?

Yawata steel works; Kitaky?sh?, Fukuoka Prefecture:

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(9) Shizuoka: Izunokuni

Izu proto-industrial reverberatory furnace; Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture:

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Controversy

The inclusion of some of these properties as UNESCO Heritage sites faced concerns and objections from Korea, due to the fact that conscripted Korean civilians and Chinese prisoners-of-war were forced to work under harsh conditions at seven of these sites during Japan's World War II mobilization policies. See Hashima_Island#World_Heritage_Site_approval_controversy for more details.

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See also

• World Heritage Sites in Japan
• Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki

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References

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External links

• UNESCO Tentative List entry
• The Modern Industrial Heritage Sites in Kyushu and Yamaguchi
• Emergence of Industrial Japan: Kyushu and Yamaguchi
• The Modern Industrial Heritage Sites in Kyushu and Yamaguchi (in Japanese)

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