This is the official home page of Tenryu-ji, the head temple of the Tenryu-ji branch of Zen Buddhism. Here you can find information on the temple's history, activities, sights, and special events, as well as directions on how to get here. Tenryu-ji is a
Japan is well known as a nation of long standing culture. Its rich history plays across its modern landscape in both its structures and its people. Fittingly,Japan is home to 26 of the more than 1,000 World Heritage Sitesas described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultura...
Japan’s World Heritage SitesThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is an agency of the United Nations that aims to promote the preservation and growth of the world's intellectual and cultural property. UNESCO is probably best known for designating World ...
While the mill girls were economically exploited as the mill was in operation, when the mill was turned into a cultural heritage, the form of economic injustice morphed into recognition injustice where the women's experiences find little expression. The study points to the importance of ...
The Shrines and Temples of Nikko comprise of the Toshogu and Futarasan-jinja Shrines. The Rinno-ji temple and the monuments in its surroundings are also included in this particular property under UNESCO World Heritage Sites inJapan. Toshogu is the location of the enshrinement of Ieyasu Tokugawa...
The Munakata region lies northeast of the city of Fukuoka and faces the rough Genkai Sea. Sixty kilometers off the coast of Kyushu is Okinoshima, a sacred island between the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula. It is not quite a kilometer in physical size, but it is huge in its...
is one of Japan’s most iconic buildings. In fact, several tourists visit this temple annually. Aside from being one of the historic monuments inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in Kyoto, it is also designated as both National Special Historic Site and National Special Landscape...
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government, and a few are in private hands. Member states have to apply to have a site listed, and no site can be listed without the approval of the host country. The only power that UNESCO has is to have a site delisted as a World Heritage Site, which has happened twice in its ...