72 More Items of National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties Missing

On the issue that fine arts designated as national important cultural properties had gone messing, on January 21, the Agency for Cultural Affairs announced that the results of the second investigation revealed that 72 more items of fine art had gone missing, including National Treasures of a sword, ‘meibutsu Inabagō’, and a long sword (tachi) signed by Yoshihira. The total number of missing items reached 180, of which three are National Treasures, including the items missing from the first investigation that took place in July 2014. (Japanese)