A UNESCO panel has issued a 'heritage alert' calling for the preservation of Jingu Park, the site of a historic ballpark in the Japanese capital, and about 3,000 trees set to be felled to make way for a skyscraper project.
An aerial view shows Meiji Jingu Stadium and Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Tokyo, Japan December 3, 2022. Kyodo via REUTERS/File PhotoTOKYO, Sept 8 - A UNESCO panel has issued a "heritage alert" calling for the preservation of Jingu Park, the site of a historic ballpark in the Japanese capital, and about 3,000 trees set to be felled to make way for a skyscraper project.
The programme would lead to the "complete destruction of the urban forest formed and nurtured over the past 100 years", the International Council on Monuments and Sites said in a letter on Thursday.against the plan that will also tear down and replace the Meiji Jingu Stadium, built in 1926, which is now home to the Yakult Swallows team.
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