World Heritage Seminar “Process of Evaluating Nominations and Roles of the Advisory Bodies for Inscription on the World Heritage List”

This book is a report of the Seminar held on March 18th 2018. It includes a glossary of World Heritage terms related to the theme of the Seminar as an annex.

JAPANESE, 58 pages

published in March 2018

Series of instruments for protecting cultural property [22] : Korea

This booklet consists of Japanese translated texts of legislation related to the protection of cultural properties in Korea in which major revision has been made recently to separate the provisions on tangible and intangible cultural properties into two individual acts.

JAPANESE and KOREAN, 219 pages

published in March 2018

Ancient Wooden Architecture in Mainland Southeast Asia: Reading the Features of Lost Buildings from Archaeological Evidence

This is the proceedings of the seminar, “Ancient Wooden Architecture in Mainland Southeast Asia: Reading the Features of Lost Buildings from Archaeological Evidence", which was held at the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in February, 2017. This volume contains lectures delivered by Japanese and four international specialists and general discussions.

JAPANESE and ENGLISH, 157 pages

published in March 2018

Research Report: A Conservation Project for the Repair, Strengthening and Recovery of Temple 1205.Archaeological Area and Monuments of Bagan, Myanmar 2017

This report contains the research and study of conservation and restoration activities, related materials, and details of the implementation of measures in Me-taw-ya(1205) Temple of Bagan, Myanmar.

ENGLISH, 106 pages

published in March 2018

The Report on the Cooperative Program for the Research of a Japanese Art Object in the Dresden State Art Collections, Porcelain Collection. The Birdcage Vase

This report documents the collaborative study between the Dresden State Art Collections, Porcelain Collection and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties on the restoration method of the Birdcage Vase owned by the Collections.

JAPANESE and ENGLISH, 121 pages

published in November 2017

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Workshops on the Conservation of Japanese Art Objects on Paper and Silk 2017

The report of the international workshops held in Berlin.

JAPANESE and ENGLISH, 91 pages

published in March 2018

Workshops on Conservation of Japanese Textile 2017

The report of the international workshops held in Taipei.

JAPANESE and ENGLISH, 45 pages

published in March 2018

Workshops on Conservation and Restoration of Urushi Objects: Evaluation 2017

The report of the evaluation seminar held in Tokyo in 2017. The outcomes of the past international workshops held in Cologne, Germany from 2007 to 2016 was discussed in the seminar.

JAPANESE and ENGLISH, 280 pages

published in March 2018

International Course on Conservation of Paper in Latin America: Evaluation 2017

The evaluation report of the international courses held in Mexico City from 2012 to 2016. This presents the basic information of the past courses and the brief result of the questionnaire survey which had conducted by Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in 2017.

JAPANESE, 70 pages

published in March 2018

Result Report: Networking Core Centers for International Cooperation in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Project “Human Resource Development Project Toward the Improvement of the Conservation and Management System for Mural Paintings in the Republic of Turkey” 2017

A Result Report of the “Human Resource Development Project Toward the Improvement of the Conservation and Management System for Mural Paintings in the Republic of Turkey” which We Carried Out as Networking Core Centers for International Cooperation in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Project in 2017.

JAPANESE, 168 pages

published in March 2018