A UNESCO committee has decided to register a group of monuments in western Japan as a World Cultural Heritage Site.
The sacred island of Okinoshima and associated sites in Fukuoka Prefecture's Munakata region will be added to the list.
At a meeting in the Polish city of Krakow on Sunday, the World Heritage committee selected all 8 monuments recommended by the Japanese government.
A UNESCO advisory panel had argued that only 4 had sufficient value to be listed.
But the committee members called for registering all 8 monuments as a set because they are closely connected.
They include the Hetsumiya Shrine of Munakata Taisha and the Shinbaru-Nuyama Tumulus Cluster.
Japan now has 21 World Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites.
Source: ANNnewsCH
