World Heritage candidate Mt. Fuji
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Mt. Fuji across Shizuoka Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture is a mountain in a Japanese highest peak. It is Tateyama, Hakusan, and queues up, is counted in one of Japanese 3 Ryozen (3 person in Japan mountain), and is one of 100 person in Japan mountains. It is an active volcano, and Mt. Fuji aims at the registration of UNESCO to World Heritage at the beginning of the 1990’s, and the movement of above sea level 3,776m has been developed. At first, the recommendation of the country will be put off from manage of the environment difficult though registration to the natural heritage was examined. However, it aimed at registration to the cultural heritage now, and it was registered in the tentative list in 2007. The examination by the monument ruins conference at which the world cultural heritage of UNESCO is investigated is scheduled to be received in the future.
“Mt. Fuji” has already been specified for “Special place of scenic beauty” by Cultural Properties Protection Law in 1952 though it is a registration waiting state as for World Heritage. The place of scenic beauty is land of with a good view. Moreover, “Mt. Fuji primeval forest” is specified for the natural monument in 1929. In addition, “Fuji air hole” was specified for the natural monument in 1929.
Above all, Mt. Fuji is existence indispensable for the economy of the surrounding area using the underflow water. Manufacturing related to the paper manufacturing industry and the medical treatment is actively done in the surrounding area. The underflow water in Mt. Fuji is sold from the abundant content of the vanadium as a mineral water. Moreover, it is an important pillar where the travel industry that takes notice of the people who visit religious facilities a lot of the visit to a shrine, summering, and climbing mountain, etc. also supports economy in the region in the Mt. Fuji region.
The difference of the opinion happened in Yamanashi Prefecture that valued Shizuoka Prefecture and the tourist destination development that valued nature and cultural protection even if coming round the natural inheritance registration of Mt. Fuji. Problems of the regulation of private cars of the Mt. Fuji tollway and Fuji climbing mountain guest’s garbage problem, etc. continue.
It is Mt. Fuji that has been written in the song from the age of [manha]. It wishes that it want you to take it as World Heritage by all means.
Tags: and tentative list, cultural heritage, natural heritage, tourist destination development, World Heritage
World Heritage candidate Ogasawara Islands
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Ogasawara Islands are islands of 104?2 in a total area on the Pacific Ocean. It is from Tokyo to about 1000 ?. Ogasawara Islands consist of isolated islands named Minami Torishima and Okino Torishima besides the south islands that indicate Nishinoshima and the volcano islands with the Ogasawara archipelago including [**jima] islands, Chichi-jima islands, and the mother island islands. It is an uninhabited island excluding Chichi-jima, the mother island, Ioto, and Minami Torishima. However, a general resident resides in Chichi-jima and the mother island only by parties concerned of the Self Defense Forces, the Meteorological Agency, and the Japan Coast Guard as for residing in Ioto and Minami Torishima.
Ogasawara Islands have the history of complete isolation after the life is born from the continent for a long time. Therefore, the living thing of the island accomplishes original evolution by calling, “Galapagos in the Orient”. For instance, the indigenous species such as animals such as [ogasawaraookoumori] and [ogasawaranosuri] and the plants named [munintsutsuji] and [muninbotan] is seen. However, these flora and fauna is on the verge of the edge of extinction in the development of the living thing and the island that man brought in.
The climate belongs to the subtropics and the tropics. In [**jima] islands, Chichi-jima islands, the mother island islands, and Nishinoshima, the subtropics, the volcano islands, Minami Torishima, and Okino Torishima are the tropics. The temperature differences between summer and winter are few, and the mild weathers through year. The typhoon comes all the year round though there is no rainy season.
The English phrase that Europe and America it is very interesting culturally residents were speaking mixes with Japanese dialectal, eight height Japanese standard dialect, and an original dialect is invented. It is called, “Ogasawara dialect”. Moreover, the Japanese one coexists with the Micronesian one in folk customs. “South seas [odori]” that became the folk customs cultural asset of the Tokyo specification in 2000 is a folk song that Micronesia influences.
Ogasawara Islands aim at the natural inheritance registration of the average of the World Heritage of UNESCO, and are registered in the tentative list. The day registered as the fourth natural heritage following Shiretoko, Shirakami Sanchi, and Yakushima Island is waited for.
Tags: and tentative list, natural heritage, Ogasawara dialect, Ogasawara Islands, World Heritage
