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Since it was necessary to make a balance between conservation of heritage values and minimization to restrict industrial activities, the Japanese Government made a decision to make a new scheme through administrative reform in case the working industrial heritages were recommended as the World Heritage. Under this scheme, the Department of Industrial Heritage was organized in the Cabinet Secretariat in order to inscribe "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining" to the World Heritage List.
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National Congress of Industrial Heritage (NCIH) is a general incorporated foundation established on September 10th, 2013 in order to support research and capacity building of industrial heritages including the working industrial heritages. NCIH practices projects which contribute to enhance the educational awareness in history, culture and technology of industrial state and to conserve the industrial heritages.
National Congress of Industrial Heritage
info@sangyoisankokuminkaigi.comAbout the Industrial Heritage Sites Information
The World Heritage Council for the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
"The Modern industrial Heritage in Kyushu, Yamaguchi and Related Areas" was successfully placed in UNESCO's World Heritage tentative list on Sep 26th,2008. Thereafter, the Consortium (Chairman: Yuichiro Ito, Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture) was established on October 29th, 2010 with six prefectures and eleven cities to promote "the Modern Industrial Heritage in Kyushu and Yamaguchi" to be enlisted on the World Heritage list. Currently,the Consortium consists of eight prefectures and eleven cities with four observer cities.