Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
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Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (の; Meiji nihon no sangyōkakumei isan: seitetsu; tekkō; zōsen; sekitan sangyō) are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods (1850s–1910), and are part of the industrial heritage of Japan. In 2009 the monuments were submitted jointly for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria ii, iii, and iv. The sites were accepted at the 39th UNESCO World Heritage session, under the condition to take measures "that allow an understanding that there were a large number of Koreans and others who were brought against their will and forced to work under harsh conditions...", and again, such measures have yet to be implemented.
Eight areas are registered, with twenty-three component sites:
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