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Chapter 4 Culture Connects the World
�3 Protecting Cultural Properties Abroad
5 Improvement of the Domestic System for International Exchange and Cooperation in the Area of Cultural Properties


Due to a heightening of interest on the part of the people of the world in the history and culture of Japan, as well as for various other reasons, there has been a rapidly increasing demand for programs that introduce Japanese culture. Strong expectations have also been expressed that, by making effective use of Japan's excellent restoration and preservation techniques, Japanese artwork located outside of Japan, as well as items of world cultural heritage may be conserved and restored.

In order to answer to these requests and expectations, and in order for Japan to be able to fulfill its international duties more effectively, a new post was instituted in the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 1993, that of Senior Specialist, International Cooperation for Cultural Properties. The Asian Cultural Heritage Conservation Division of the Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties has been reorganized into the Division of International Cooperation for Conservation. These are some of the steps that have been taken in an effort to improve the domestic system.


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