Japanese Sites Win UNESCO Designation After Compromise With South Korea

IZUNOKUNI, JAPAN - JULY 06: Tourists Nirayama Furnace, newly registered world heritage site, on July 6, 2015 in Izunokuni, Shizuoka, Japan. Japan's "Sites of the Meiji Industrial Revolution" was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site after Tokyo and Seoul reached a compromise on describing Korean workers at the facilities during World War II. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)