Impact of Activities focusing on World Heritage on the Preservation and Utilization of Local Cultural Assets

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  • 世界遺産を目指す活動が地域の文化資産の保存と活用に及ぼす影響
  • セカイ イサン オ メザス カツドウ ガ チイキ ノ ブンカ シサン ノ ホゾン ト カツヨウ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ

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Since Japan ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1992, there has been an active local movement to place cultural properties on the World Heritage List and a trend toward the reevaluation of local cultural properties. In 2006 and 2007, the Agency for Cultural Affairs issued a public call to local governments throughout Japan to include cultural properties on its Tentative List of World Heritage Sites. Consequently, this movement gained momentum. Nine of the cultural properties that were submitted to the Agency were included on the Tentative List, whilst 27 others were not. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey on the preservation and utilization of cultural assets in the region for each of the 27 cultural asset groups. This survey comprehensively identifies whether projects encouraging World Heritage registration are being promoted and, if so, what subsequent activities are being undertaken. This study presents the results of the survey and systematically clarifies how local cultural properties can be protected by focusing on the relationship between the World Heritage Convention and domestic cultural property protection. The project analyzes the effect of the global system of cultural property protection on the domestic system in the case of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture.

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