By SOICHI TSUCHIDATE/Staff Writer
September 16, 2023 at 19:01 JST
Members of the Japan branch of ICOMOS and a parliamentary association to protect the nature, history and culture of Meiji Jingu Gaien park in Tokyo hold a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Sept. 15. (Soichi Tsuchidate)
The UNESCO-affiliated International Council on Monuments and Sites said the planned redevelopment of Tokyo’s leafy Jingu Gaien park amounts to “irreversible destruction” of the nation’s cultural heritage and called for the project to be scrapped. [Read More]
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