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Cultural properties are indispensable to a correct understanding of the history and culture of Japan. Through their preservation and utilization, the Japanese people can lead lives that are aesthetically enriched, and possess abase from which a high level of culture can be created and developed. In order to preserve these cultural properties, Which are an important part of the Japanese people's heritage, tangible cultural properties such as old Shinto and Buddhist buildings. Pictures, sculptures and historic sites, and intangible cultural properties such as Kabuki, ceramic art and so on, are selected and designated as National Treasures or as Important Cultural Properties and protected under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (Chart I-3-1).

Chart l-3-1 System for the Protection of Cultural Properties