UNESCO says ancient Buddhist scriptures stored at Tokyo's Zojoji temple will be added to its Memory of the World list.

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The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated to the temple.