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Cultural Restitution
Jan 25, 2020
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Japan
Updated October 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Japan to a country or community of source. Entries are updated regularly.
October 2023
A South Korean Supreme Court ruling means a stolen Buddhist statue must be returned to a temple in Japan, ending a decades-old dispute
September 2022
Japan agrees to return to South Korea more than 1,200 royal books removed during its 1910 to 1945 colonial rule in a move to improve diplomatic relations
December 2011
Important historical archive of 1,200 Korean documents, looted during Japan's annexation of the peninsula, returned to Seoul
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A Roman bronze head from a statue of a young man, acquired by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1971, is returning to Turkey after evidence emerged it was excavated illegally
An official from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has confirmed the identity of an object held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) as a sacred Ethiopian Tabot
The British Museum has shown itself adept at refusing to provide information to questions they’d prefer not to answer. We hope our initiative to escalate concerns about the Museum’s collection of Ethiopian Tabots to the Information Commissioner’s Office will encourage greater transparency
