Committee for Salvaging Cultural Properties Affected by the 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku and Related Disasters

　Committee for Salvaging Cultural Properties Affected by the 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku and Related Disasters

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Index

　1. A Message from the Chairman

　2. List of Previous Activities

　3. Link to the Related Organizations

A Message from the Chairman

First, on behalf of the entire committee, I would like to express my deepest condolences for all those who have lost their lives as well as my sincere sympathies to the people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. I also highly appreciate the sympathetic messages and kind support that has been coming in from all over the world. As preservers of cultural properties, we are in quite a precarious situation with regard to the restoration of and first aid treatment for the properties. While we bear in mind the fact that the search for many missing people is ongoing and that those suffering injuries are yet to recover, we believe that tangible and intangible heritage are the proof of the lives of the past generations, and undoubtedly, the restoration of indigenous cultural properties will boost the morale of those still suffering. In April 2011, the Agency for Cultural Affairs approached the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage and many other cultural heritage/fine arts organizations to jointly establish the Committee for Salvaging Cultural Properties Affected by the 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku and Related Disasters. Since then, we have been struggling to restore as many disaster-affected cultural properties as possible so that they can be transmitted to future generations. Your understanding and support for our activities is highly appreciated.

KAMEI Nobuo
Chairman, Committee for Salvaging Cultural Properties Affected by the 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku and Related Disasters (Director General, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)

List of Previous Activities

August-		Activity in Fukushima prefecture start
	-Naganuma Storage in Sukagawa (Naganuma, Sukagawa: Salvation/first aid of dampen cultural properties)
August-		Depending on the request from Ibaraki prefecture, activity in Ibaragi start
	-Damaged materials in Niihari Kyukokan (Chikusei: Salvation depending on building destruction)
May-		Depending on the request from Iwate prefecture, activities on Iwate start
	-Materials of Rikuzentakata City Museum (Rikuzentakata: salvation/first aid of storage materials)
	-Documents of Kamaishi municipal office (Kamaishi: first aid of governance documents)
	-Documents of Rikuzentakata municipal office (Rikuzentakata: first aid of governance documents)
10th May		First-aid activity for Damaged Cultural Properties: Information sharing workshop
20th April-		Activities in Miyagi:
	-Ishinomaki Cultural Centre (Ishinomaki: salvation/first aid of storage materials)
	-Oshika Whale Land (Ayukawa, Oshika-cyo, Ishinomaki: salvation/first aid of cetacean specimen)
	-Marine Pal Onagawa (Onagawa: salvation/first aid of storage materials)
	-Iwaisaki Promenade Centre (Hashikami, Kesennuma: salvation/first aid of folk material)
	-Buried cultural properties storage in Higashi matsushima (Nobiru, Higashi matsushima: salvation/first aid of Archeological materials/ dampen drawings)
19th April		The local headquarter in Miyagi is activated
15th April		Committee for Salvaging Cultural Properties: The 1st meeting

Link to the Related Organizations

■	The foundation for Cultural Heritage and art Research (in Japanese)
■	National Institutes for Cultural Heritage Headquarter
■	Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
■	Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara
■	Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art (in Japanese)
■	National Institutes for the Humanities National Institutes of Japanese Literature (in Japanese)
■	National Institutes for the Humanities National Museum of Japanese History
■	National Institutes for the Humanities National Museum of Ethnology
■	Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Nature and Science
■	The Japanese Council of Art Museums
■	The Japan Society of Archives Institutions (in Japanese)
■	Specifies Non-Profit Juridical Person Network for Preserving Historical Materials (in Japanese)
■	Network for Historical Materials (in Japanese)
■	National Diet Library
■	General Incorporated Association the Japan Society for the Conservation of Cultural Property
■	Japan Society for Scientific Studies on Cultural Properties (in Japanese)
■	Incorporated Foundation Japanese Association of Museum （ICOM Japan） (in Japanese)
■	Tokyo National Museum
■	Nara National Museum
■	Kyoto National Museum
■	Kyushu National Museum

Independent Administrative Institution
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
13-43 UENO PARK, TAITO-KU, TOKYO 110-8713, JAPAN
TEL: 03-3823-2241; FAX: 03-3828-2434

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