Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan
The World Heritage Committee today added 13 cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List,include Japan, Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan
The property consists of 17 archaeological sites in the southern part of Hokkaido Island and northern Tohoku in geographical settings ranging from mountains and hills to plains and lowlands, from inland bays to lakes, and rivers. They bear a unique testimony to the development over some 10,000 years of the pre-agricultural yet sedentary Jomon culture and its complex spiritual belief system and rituals. It attests to the emergence, development, maturity and adaptability to environmental changes of a sedentary hunter-fisher-gatherer society which developed from about 13,000 BCE. Expressions of Jomon spirituality were given tangible form in objects such as lacquered pots, clay tablets with the impression of feet, the famous goggle eyed dogu figurines, as well as in ritual places including earthworks and large stone circles reaching diameters of more than 50 metres. The serial property testifies to the rare and very early development of pre-agricultural sedentism from emergence to maturity.
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A new trend in Japan’s overworked society?
The ILC community has ramped up its preparations ahead of the ILC pre-lab to be instated in 2022, and we’re moving closer and closer to the project becoming a reality. Maybe some of our readers are starting to imagine a future life in Japan? While it will be a global research facility, it will be located in Japan, and it’s only natural that many of our readers will start to wonder what it will be like to work in Japan… Especially since we’ve all heard the stereotype that the Japanese people work some long hours*.
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Always with a sense of gratitude(HANYU Yuzuru)
He is the 2014 Sochi Olympics and 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic’s gold medalist.
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A figureskater born in 1994 and from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. He is the 2014 Sochi Olympics and 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic’s gold medalist. Mr. Hanyu started figure skating where his sister used to learn and at the age of four he won the national tournament for the first time while in the 4th grade of elementary school (All Japan Nobis Championship B class), and then won more tournaments as he grew up, including the achievement of becoming the first Japanese boy to win the world junior championship in junior high school. Mr. Hanyu was practicing at a skating rink in Sendai when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit. As many as 100,000 fans from all over the country gathered to celebrate at the parade held locally after his second consecutive Olympic title.
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About Tohoku ILC Promotion Council
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This conference, consisting of industry, academic, and government representatives, has been established to promote basic scientific research and to deepen the understanding of the International Linear Collider, as well as to research and maintain the environment during ILC installation.
http://www.tohoku-ilc.jp/en
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That's the news for this month! As always, feel free to send us any questions about local activities for the ILC, life in the region, or about working in Japan.
Best wishes,
The Tohoku ILC Promotion Council
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