Press Release

International Collaborative Project Is Launched to Save Cultural Heritage Damaged by Great East Japan Earthquake

The Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Art Research (Ueno, Taito Ward, Tokyo/ President: Ryohei Miyata) announced today that a project entitled “Save Our Culture (SOC)” has been launched in international collaboration with World Monuments Fund (NY, U.S.A/ President: Bonnie Burnham) and with cooperation from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and Tokyo University of the Arts.

SOC aims to raise domestic and international resources while identifying and assisting efforts at the local level to preserve and restore cultural heritage damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, contributing to rebuilding of afflicted communities.

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