UNESCO Grants Echizen Coveted Craft and Folk Art Status
Echizen City in Fukui Prefecture has been named a UNESCO Creative City for Crafts and Folk Art, recognizing its 1,000-year craft heritage and role in sustainable cultural development.
Echizen City in Fukui Prefecture has been named a UNESCO Creative City for Crafts and Folk Art, recognizing its 1,000-year craft heritage and role in sustainable cultural development.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan recently organized a tour of Ozawa Shuzo, a sake brewery in Ome, western Tokyo.
The latest addition to Japan’s UNESCO World Heritage sites is Sado Island Gold Mines, in Niigata Prefecture, which operated for 400 years until 1989.