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Police believe arson unlikely in Okinawa castle fire

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But restored buildings such as Shuri Castle are not designated as national treasures or important cultural properties, leaving them ineligible for government subsidies and requiring their owners to take responsibility for fire prevention measures.

Woah...but they are important enough to have the government apply for them to be World Heritage Sites?

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Only the land park and remains before 1950 are designated world heritage, the 1992 rebuilt buildings are not.

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Even before the fire at Norte Dame was extinguished people were donating millions of dollars for its restoration. I wonder will Japanese people do the same thing for Shuri castle?

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people were donating millions of dollars

A lot of the pledged money never arrived.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-

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people were donating millions of dollars

A lot of the pledged money never arrived.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-

The page cannot be found

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There seem an increasing number of eccentrics, who like to play their own scripts and put them live on the Internet. No possibility of that?

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-fulfilling-pledges-to-rebuild-notre-dame/

Notre Dame work continues as billionaire donors delay cash

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/notre-dame-continues...

2019/06/19 · The billionaire French donors who promised flashy donations to rebuild Notre Dame after a devastating fire haven't paid a penny yet toward the restoration of the French national monument. Instead, it's been mainly ...

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The NHK evening news said inspectors today had recovered a severely-burned power distribution board from the northwest corner of the main hall, suggesting that might have been the cause of the fire.

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