February 28, 2012
The Selection Committee for Memory of the World of the Japanese
National Commission for UNESCO has decided to jointly nominate with Spain, Materials
Related to the Keicho-era Mission to Europe to be inscribed on the UNESCO Memory
of the World Register.
The Committee will work towards the inscription of
these documents along with the Mido-kanpaku-ki documents of the Heian era, onto
the list for May 2013.
The nomination will be submitted to the UNESCO headquarters
at the end of next month.
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