Jomon Era sites picked for possible World Heritage designation

The Sado complex of heritage gold and silver mines, which was not selected by the panel this time, will seek to be designated by UNESCO in 2021 or subsequent years.

I've been. It was OK, but I can't see what would elevate it to a world heritage site.

Preserving world heritage and culture is one thing, spending millions upon millions, if not billions in the process to advertise and promote this is something totally different.

Hell just make the entire country a UNESCO site and save everyone the problem and annoyance of reading these types of articles every couple of months!

I only guess how much the Jomon Era archaeological sites will be interpreted to see many Japanese historians should mend the forged Japan history it's already known in textbooks. So many items archaeologists must reveal of what the historians made the embellishment of Japan history. As I live in Kyushu I really want to know how was the distributed map of Jomon civilization. Which one will be the Jomon civilization the extreme northern or the southern? I know the period of Jomon was very long enough to be centuries to millennium and probably the people of Jomon weren't the same, and probably other names will come to show the differences between them.

Yubaru

Could not have said it better bud.

Can't Japan just appreciate what it has without this constant need to be recognised?

Amazing news! I am hoping northern Tohoku is awarded the World Heritage. It will be a huge boost to the economy, with millions of tourists flocking to the aomori, iwate and akita sites. Hotels and Myseums will be built and many jobs created.

This is great news. I think more efforts need to be made to understand the Jomon people. They were the predecessors of modern-day Japanese people - the original inhabitants of Japan if you will.

The Japanese archipelago is a gold mine of opportunity to study these neolithic people, there are still clear signs of them in many places - yet, in some cases, no academic study into or preservation for those places.

Jomon history is often oversimplified, and due to political reasons, by comparison largely ignored. Hopefully this move signals a change.

Hurry up and make all of Japan a UNESCO Heritage site while the same right-wingers who want all these Japanese sites listed whine and complain about the UN, and refuse to pay if other countries have things listed that Japan doesn't like.

Amazing news! I am hoping northern Tohoku is awarded the World Heritage. It will be a huge boost to the economy, with millions of tourists flocking to the aomori, iwate and akita sites. Hotels and Myseums will be built and many jobs created.

And let's just continue to forget about the people who really need help, Tohoku, Kumamoto, Fukushima, and all the recently created refugees from the floods.

Those ruins have been around for a millenium, I am quite sure they can wait another 20 or 30 years until everything else gets cleaned up!

Priorities out of whack big time!

It too hot to go out, so I think I will google this a little later, after my nap. Agree that the whole country can’t be a world heritage site though.

Just put a big sign at all the ports of Entry "welcome to Japan world heritage country everything you see here is a world heritage site"

I first learnt about 'Jomon' when I watched a Japanese movie 'The Most Beautiful Night in the World', Since then, I urge to have the power of Jomon.