Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Aerial photograph of Hagi Castle Town
Location	Japan
Criteria	Cultural: (ii), (iv)
Reference	1484
Inscription	2015 (39th Session)
Area	306.66 ha (757.8 acres)
Buffer zone	2,408.33 ha (5,951.1 acres)
Coordinates	34°25′50″N 131°24′44″E / 34.43056°N 131.41222°E / 34.43056; 131.41222
Location of Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining in Earth

Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・鉄鋼、造船、石炭産業, Meiji nihon no sangyōkakumei isan: seitetsu, tekkō, zōsen, sekitan sangyō) are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods (1850s–1910), and are part of the industrial heritage of Japan.^[1] In 2009 the monuments were submitted jointly for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria ii, iii, and iv. The sites were accepted at the 39th UNESCO World Heritage session, under the condition to take measures "that allow an understanding that there were a large number of Koreans and others who were brought against their will and forced to work under harsh conditions ...", and again, such measures have yet to be implemented.^[2]

Eight areas are registered, with twenty-three component sites:^{[citation needed]}