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.
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What is World Heritage?
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The construction project in the Aswan height dam lifted in the Nile valley in Egypt in the 1960’s. However, the Nubia ruins group from the Abu Simbel palace in the Nile valley in an Egyptian southern part to Philadelphia will sink in the bottom in the dam when this dam is completed. Then, UNESCO began the Nubia going under water ruins relief campaign.
Technical assistance and the archeology investigation support were done by help of 60 countries in the world, and the Abu Simbel temple in Nubia ruins was dismantled and reconstructed. And, the opportunity said that it would maintain ruins, the building, and nature, etc. with historical value from development internationally starting with this campaign arose.
The 17th General Conference of UNESCO was opened in the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, and “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention)” was approved by common consent in 1972. The one registered in the World Heritage list is called World Heritage based on this agreement.
World Heritage is classified as follows:
- The cultural heritage ･･･ It is construction and ruins, etc. with excelling and the universe value.
- The natural heritage ･･･ It is region with geographical features, the living thing, and the spectacle, etc. with excellent value.
- The crisis inheritance (World Heritage exposed to the crisis) ･･･ Leaving to future generations is difficult one.
Additionally, the one to prove the crime that the human race such as the wars and racial discriminations has committed is registered as World Heritage. These are called “Negative World Heritage”.
No.1 of the World Heritage list registration is 12 such as yellowstone and Galapagos Islands in the United States. In the breakdown, the natural heritage was 4, and the cultural heritage was 8. The Nubia ruins group in Egypt was registered as the world cultural heritage in 1979.
World Heritage Convention is ratified in 1992, and Japan becomes the 125th signatory and is better.
Tags: and crisis inheritance, Aswan High Dam, cultural heritage, natural heritage, UNESCO, World Heritage
World natural heritage of Japan”Shiretoko”
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Having been registered among three world natural heritages in Japan soonest is “Shiretoko. “The Shiretoko peninsula is located on the Tohoku edge of Hokkaido. Surroundings are enclosed by the [oho-suku] sea and the Nemuro strait.
- Address and area
･Hokkaido Shari-gun Shari-cho, Hokkaido Shari-gun Shari-cho, and Menashi-gun Rausu
･Continental areas put from center part of Shiretoko peninsula on tip and the circumference sea
･Central portion north latitude 44°07′23 ” east longitude 145°09′36″
･710km2 (continental areas 487km2 and sea area 223km2)
- Feature of nature
Shiretoko is the world, a seawater region of the season of low latitude, and the region where the drift ice can be observed more by stern low latitude in the northern hemisphere. The nutrient brought by the drift ice generates a large amount of botanical plankton, and it becomes basic of the feeding chain. And, the oceanic ecosystem such as the lion seals and terrestrial ecosystems of the brown bear etc. relate mutually, and the compound ecosystem is formed.
Additionally, the distribution of a vertical plant is seen to a high point about above the sea such as [shiretokosumire], [meakanfusuma], and bleeding hearts that grow from the seaside plant Hermanus and sea lyme grass to [iwatsubute] in the alpine region in Shiretoko because it is low. [Shiretokosumire] and [chishimakohamagiku], etc. are a peculiar rare species to Shiretoko.
Moreover, the Shima owl, the sea eagle, and the erne also that is an international rare species are growing. It lives though a large-scale mammal such as brown bears and [ezoshika] that are the maximum land meats in Japan is high density. Rich nature in Shiretoko is symbolized both of these.
“Shiretoko world natural heritage regional liaison council assembly” is set up because of promotion of proper maintenance management in the inheritance region now. Moreover, “Shiretoko world natural heritage region management plan” is made, and the system of management is straightened.
Tags: and terrestrial ecosystems, natural heritage, oceanic ecosystem, Shiretoko, World Heritage
Disproportion of cultural heritage and natural heritage
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Present World Heritage to which attention all over the world and expectation are attracted. However, some problems are pointed out over the registration. There is “Disproportions of the number of the cultural heritage and natural heritage” as the one.
Disproportions of number of cultural heritage and natural heritage
The registered World Heritage is 851 in total as of 2007. The cultural heritage is 660, and it is 166, and the mixed heritage is 25 in the natural heritage sooner or later. First of all, let’s confirm each definition of the cultural heritage, the natural heritage, and the mixed heritage:
･Cultural heritage ･･･ Monument, complex, ruins, and culture outlook, etc. that have outstanding universal value.
･Natural heritage ･･･ Region including living and habitat etc. of flora and fauna with fear of geographical features that has outstanding universal value, geological features, ecosystem, spectacle, and extermination.
･Mixed heritage ･･･ Inheritance in which both cultural heritage and natural heritage value is had both.
There is one of the reasons for the disproportion that the cultural heritage is four times the natural heritage near difficult the protection of the natural heritage. In a word, the friction of development and maintenance is caused easily. For instance, it is registered in the crisis inheritance such as “[Manovo] = [gunda] San Floris national park” of “Manas Wildlife Sanctuary” of India registered in the natural heritage and the Central African Republic.
As a whole, another reason for the disproportions of the number of registration of the cultural heritage and natural heritage becomes an object for the natural heritage about geological features, the ecosystem, and the spectacle, etc. with but some area. Therefore, there is an ascertainable of the “Universal value” difficulty compared with the cultural heritage such as one churches and ruins. Moreover, it is needed to protect to succeed to during the future after it is registered and to be managed as a condition of registration. As for the maintenance of the entire ecosystem, it is still difficult and the evaluation is also difficult though it reports on the maintenance situation every six years after it registers for that, and the re-examination in The World Heritage Committee is done.
However, I want to try to admit and to maintain both both hereafter with “Universal value” for a long time the cultural heritage and the natural heritage assuming that “It wants you to have it”.
Tags: and number of registration, cultural heritage, mixed heritage, natural heritage, World Heritage
World natural heritage”Shirakami Sanchi”
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Shirakami Sanchi across Aomori Prefecture and Akita Prefecture was registered in the World Heritage of UNESCO (natural heritage) in November, 1993. It was registered first as World Heritage with the Buddhism building, Himeji Castle (cultural heritage above) in the Horyu-ji Temple region, and Yakushima Island (natural heritage) in Japan. It is a mountainous district that consists of a beechen virgin forest to which person’s hand is not added.
It was admitted that natural inheritance standard 9 of Inscription for Criteria was filled, and was registered.
Standard 9: The one that is remarkable sample in land, fresh water, coast, oceanic ecosystem, the flora and fauna crowd’s evolution, and development that shows progressing important, ecological, biological process.
It not from is beautiful nature like other place of scenic beauty ground and vast sceneries that Shirakami Sanchi registered in World Heritage. The beech is useful, estimated that longevity is 200 years only from the shiitake cultivation, and is a short life. Therefore, the beech naturally left becomes an important source of nutrition for the living of other trees and living things. Even what rotted away from Wakaki furthermore ..the gigantic tree and the old tree.. was left untouched, and such a primeval district was unusual worldwide, and it became the reason for registration in Shirakami Sanchi. Moreover, even if the woodland path is built because the upheaval is advancing now, and the ground is weak, Shirakami Sanchi is closed because of the landslide. Moreover, being buried in the snow might also have invited the result of refusing the influence of human work in winter.
It is about 17,000ha to be registered in the World Heritage of UNESCO sooner or later though the area of the entire Shirakami Sanchi is 130,000ha. It is in the heartland region that was registered in World Heritage where the maintenance such as woodland paths was not done in the vast area especially at all. After World Heritage is registered, development is stopped as for these regions. There is only a mountain climbing trail that was before registration, and maintenance is not scheduled in the future. It is a prohibition of hunting region and it is assumed that it prohibits fishing. The dead have gone out in the core region in the center part due to the accident accident after registering World Heritage of the fact that there is even no woodland path, too.
In the natural inheritance registration district and the circumference, there is a viewpoint such as the waterfall, the Tsugaru pass, 12 lakes in the Tsugaru quasi-national park, and Gaku Shirakami at the shade gate. However, the problem is caused as tourist’s poor manners are pointed out after it registers, too.
Tags: and maintenance, beechen virgin forest, natural heritage, Shirakami Sanchi, World Heritage
World natural heritage”Yakushima Island”
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Yakushima Island was registered in the world natural heritage of UNESCO in December, 1993.
Yakushima Island is an island in Kagoshima Prefecture located in the sea in the [kyuushuudaijima] peninsula. As the island in Kagoshima Prefecture, it is five corner type near the circle, and a big island in ninth also in the 2nd and Japanese whole land after Amami Oshima. About 132 kilometers of island in surroundings. The majority consists of granite. The mountain of 1,000-meter class such as [miyakoreura] soars in the center part, and there is an alias of “[Arupuru] of the sea”. It extends from the subtropics to the sub frigid zone, various floras are seen, and a high moor, small [hanakoreekawa], and [hanakoreekawa] in the Japanese south end exist. The Yaku Japan cedar gigantic tree including the Jomon Japan cedar grows naturally. There is [gajumaru] woods, too.
Sands in the island northwest were registered in Ramsar Convention by the name “Yakushima Island [nagatahama]” (2005).
A rich, beautiful nature was left in Yakushima Island like this, it was admitted that 7 and 9 of the standards of the natural inheritance registration were filled, and was registered.
Standard 7: The one with excelling particularly and nature beauty and aesthetic importance including the highest natural phenomenon or region. Standard 9: The one that is remarkable sample in land, fresh water, coast, oceanic ecosystem, the flora and fauna crowd’s evolution, and development that shows progressing important, ecological, biological process.
Yakushima Island appears in NHK continuous novel “[Manten]” etc.Moreover, the white valley itinerant priest valley of the [miyakore] Urakawa branch that flows in the Yakushima Island northern part becomes one of the models of the stage of Hayao Miyazaki supervisor movie work “The Princess Mononoke”. The massive rock extends, and it is covered with the virgin forest. It is a stage that shifts to narrow quarters of the Yaku Japan cedars. The Yayoi Japan cedar boasts of 3000 age of a tree year.
It is also good to enjoy various eco-tours like a climbing mountain, the kayak canoe, and the shower climbing, etc. in rich, various natural environment of Yakushima Island.
Tags: and eco-tour, natural heritage, The Princess Mononoke, World Heritage, Yakushima Island
