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Tuesday 19

Venue: Instituto Cultural Cabañas

After four million years of natural history, we are now immersed in a boundless cultural and natural heritage, apparently without limits. But man’s doing has often interfered with nature, ruining it occasionally. Our responsibility today is to preserve not only the great natural inheritance, but also the cultural legacy created by humanity.

The Convention on World Heritage is a document approved in 1972 in a general ONU Session (Organization of United Nations) which took place in Paris. Its objective is to preserve for future generations the natural and cultural legacies that evidently imply a universal value.

By July 2005, Japan and 177 other countries had already signed the ‘Convention for World Heritage’, committing themselves to the world in the preservation of the cultural and natural inheritance within their territory, promising to accept the duty and obligation therein implied, that is, protecting the World Heritage of Human Legacy. In July 2005, Japan has 812 places considered as World Heritage.

KAZUYOSHI MIYOSHI, Photographer

He was born in 1958 in the Prefecture of Tokushima, and later studied at the Tokai University (Literature School, Massive Communications Department.)

He set up a company, Rakuen, which means Paradise.

He has travelled all over the world and his work is in permanent exhibition at the ‘George Eastman House’ International Photography and Film Museum in the United States.

He is a special Lecturer at the Technical College in Tokyo and was appointed Economic Advisor of the Mariana Islands.

Miyoshi’s splendid photograph book ‘World Heritage in Japan’ was published in 1998.

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