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SHIRAKAWA, Gifu Prefecture--Toshinobu Ota was contemplating the huge cost of re-thatching the roof of his centuries-old wooden-beamed farmhouse when word arrived at the Ogimachi settlement that the Shirakawa-go district in Shirakawa had been officially registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
