Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Related Discourses, Practices, and Institutions in Japan and China

Empirical Studies in Historical Perspective

A Selected Bibliography of Protecting the Weak in East Asia, Past and Present


Cultural Heritage

Cultural Heritage General | Cultural Heritage Japan | Cultural Heritage China



Cultural Heritage General

Aikawa-Faure, Noriko (2009), “From the Proclamation of Masterpieces to the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage”, in Smith, L. and Akagawa, N. (Eds.), Intangible Heritage, Routledge, London.

Appadurai, Arjun (2001), “The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage”, Journal of Social Archaeology, No. 1:1, pp. 35–49.

Appiah, Kwame A. (2005), The Ethics of Identity, Princeton University Press.

Arizpe, Lourdes and Amescua, Cristina (Eds.) (2013), Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Springer, Dordrecht (Netherlands), London.

Bendix, Regina F., Eggert, Aditya and Peselmann, Arnika (Eds.) (2012), Heritage Regimes and the State, Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property, Vol. 6, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen.

Bergdahl, Ewa (2012), “Conversation Piece: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Sweden”, in Stefano, Michelle L., Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane (Ed.), Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Boydell Press, Woodbridge.

Blake, Janet (2000), “On Defining the Cultural Heritage”, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 49 No. 1, pp. 61–85.

Blake, Janet (2006), Commentary on the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Institute of Art and Law, Leicester [England].

Blake, Janet (Ed.) (2007), Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Approaches. A Collection of Essays, Institute of Art and Law, Builth Wells [Wales].

Brumann, Christoph (2013), “Comment le patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco devient immatériel [Cultivating Elusiveness: the Intangibilisation of UNESCO World Heritage]”, Gradhiva, No. 18, pp. 22–49.

Brumann, Christoph (2014), “Heritage Agnosticism: A Third Path for the Study of Cultural Heritage”, Social Anthropology, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 173–188.

Dorfman, Eric (Ed.) (2014), Intangible Natural Heritage: New Perspectives on Natural Objects, Routledge, [S.l.].

Fewsmith, Joseph (2004), “Promoting the Scientific Development Concept”, China Leadership Monitor, Vol. 11, pp. 1–10.

Fiskesjo, Magnus (2010), “The Politics of Cultural Heritage”, in You-tien Hsing and Ching Kwan Lee (Eds.), Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism, Routledge, New York, NY, pp. 225-245.

Foley, Kathy (2014), “No More Masterpieces: Tangible Impacts and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Bordered Worlds”, Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 369–398.

Gegner, Martin and Ziino, Bart (2012), The Heritage of War, Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, New York.

Graham, B. J. and Howard, Peter (2008), The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, Ashgate Research Companions, Ashgate Pub. Co., Burlington, VT.

Hevia, James L. (2001), “World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde”, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 219–243.

Howard, Keith (Ed.) (2012), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ashgate, London.

Inada Takashi 稲田孝司 (2014), Nihon to furansu no iseki hogo: Kôkogaku to hô, gyôsei, shimin undô 日本とフランスの遺跡保護 考古学と法・行政・市民運動 [Protection of Archeological Sites in Japan and France: Archeology, Law, Administration and Citizens' Movements], Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.

Ingram, Catherine (2012), “Eee, mang gay dor ga ey (Hey, Why Don’t You Sing)? Imagining the Future for Kam Big Songs”, in Howard, K. (Ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ashgate, London.

JokiLehto, Jukka (op. 2011), ICCROM and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage: A History of the Organization's First 50 Years, 1959-2009, ICCROM Conservation Studies, Vol. 11, ICCROM, Rome.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara (2004), “Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production”, Museum International, Vol. 56 No. 1-2, pp. 52–65.

Kono, Toshiyuki (2004), “Keynote Speech - The Basic Principles of the Convention for Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage: A Comparative Analysis with the Convention for Protection of World Natural and Cultural Heritage and Japanese Law”, in Japan Foundation (Ed.), Okinawa International Forum 2004, Utaki in Okinawa and Sacred Spaces in Asia, Community Development and Cultural Heritage, pp. 37–43.

Kono, Toshiyuki (2009), Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property: Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, Intersentia; Distribution for the USA and Canada: International Specialized Book Services, Antwerp, Portland, OR.

Labadi, Sophia and Long, Colin (Eds.) (2010), Heritage and Globalisation, Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, England, New York.

Lenski, Sophie (2014), Batik in Bethlehem, Hikaye in Hannover: Der rechtliche Schutz des Kulturerbes zwischen kulturellem Internationalismus und nationaler Identität, Schriften zum Kunst- und Kulturrecht, Bd. 19, 1. Aufl., Nomos, Baden-Baden.

Liebs, Chester H. (1998), “Listing of Tangible Cultural Properties: Expanded Recongnition for Historic Buildings in Japan”, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 679–697.

Logan, William S. and Reeves, Keir (2009), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage', Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, Routledge, London, New York.

Nas, Peter J.M. (2002), “Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture: Reflections on the UNESCO World Heritage List with CA⋆ Comment”, Current Anthropology, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 139–148.

O'Keefe, Patrick J., Prott, Lyndel V., Redmond-Cooper, Ruth and Urice, Stephen K. (2013), Realising Cultural Heritage Law: Festschrift for Patrick Joseph O'Keefe, Institute of Art and Law, Builth Wells, United Kingdom.

Pai, Hyung I. (2013), Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity, Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Prideaux, Bruce, Timothy, Dallen J. and Chon, Kaye S. (Eds.) (2008), Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, London, New York.

Rizzo, Ilde and Mignosa, Anna (Eds.) (2013), Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Silverman, Helaine and Ruggles, D. F. (Eds.) (2009), Intangible Heritage Embodied, Springer, London, New York, Heidelberg.

Smith, Laurajane (2006), Uses of Heritage, Routledge, New York, London.

Smith, Laurajane and Akagawa, Natsuko (Eds.) (2009), Intangible Heritage, Routledge, London, New York.

Stanley-Price, Nicholas and King, Joseph (Eds.) (2009), Conserving the Authentic: Essays in Honour of Jukka Jokilehto, ICCROM Conservation Series, Vol. 10, ICCROM, Rome.

Stefano, Michelle L., Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane (Ed.) (2012), Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Boydell Press, Woodbridge.

Stone, Peter G. and Molyneaux, Brian (1994), The Presented Past: Heritage, Museums, and Education, One world Archaeology, Vol. 25, Routledge in association with English Heritage, London, New York.

Stovel, Herb, Stanley-Price, Nicholas and Killick, Robert (Eds.) (2005), Conservation of Living Religious Heritage, ICCROM Conservation Series, Vol. 3, ICCROM.

Swenson, Astrid (2013), The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914, New Studies in European History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Thornbury, Barbara E. (1994), “The Cultural Properties Protection Law and Japan's Folk Performing Arts”, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp. 211–225.

Tornatore, Jean-Louis (2012), “Retour d’anthropologie « le repas gastronomique des Français ». Eléments d’ethnographie d’une distinction patrimoniale”, ethnographiques.org, Vol. 24 No. Jul.

UNESCO (1972), “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage”, available at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/ (accessed September 2014).

UNESCO (1989), “Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore”, available at: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.phpURL_ID=13141&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (accessed October 2014).

UNESCO (2001), “Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”, available at: http://www.unesco.org/bpi/intangible_heritage/backgrounde.htm (accessed October 2014).

UNESCO (2001), “UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity”, available at: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.phpURL_ID=13179&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (accessed November 2014).

UNESCO (2003), “Text of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage”, available at: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00006 (accessed November 2014).

UNESCO (2014), “Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Paris, 17 October 2003 (member state list)”, available at: http://www.unesco.org/eri/la/convention.asp?KO=17116&language=E (accessed October 2014).

UNESCO (2014), “Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Register of Best Safeguarding Practices”, available at: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00559 (accessed November 2014).

UNESCO (2014), “Pending Files”, available at: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00554 (accessed November 2014).

UNESCO Bulgaria (2014), “Living Human Treasures System: Instructions”, available at: http://www.unescobg.org/culture/bulich/?language=us&article=documents&section=docs&post=21 (accessed October 2014).

van Uystel, Steven and Jurčys, Paulius (2012), “Heritage and Societies: Toward the 20th Anniversary of the Nara Document and Beyond. Conference Report”, Journal of Japanese Law, Vol. 17 No. 34, pp. 309–316.

Walsh, Kevin (1992), The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Postmodern World, Heritage, Routledge, London, New York.

World Tourism Organization (2012), Tourism and Intangible Cultural Heritage, World Tourism Organization, Madrid, Spain.

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Cultural Heritage Japan

Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (ACA), Cultural Properties for Future Generations – Outline of the Cultural Administration of Japan.

Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (ACA), Intangible Cultural Heritage. Protection System for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan.

Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (ACA), Policy of Cultural Affairs in Japan - Fiscal 2013.

Aikawa-Faure, Noriko (2014), “Excellence and Authenticity: 'Living National (Human) Treasures' in Japan and Korea.”, International Journal of Intangible Heritage, Vol. 9, pp. 37–51.

Akagawa, Natsuko (2014), Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy: Heritage, National Identity and National Interest, Routledge Contemporary Japan Series, Routledge, London, New York.

Arisawa, Shino (2011), “Cultural Properties Protection Law: Aspects of Preservation and Innovation in the Protection of Intangible Cultural Properties of Japan”, Quadrante, No. 12-13, pp. 104–115.

Arisawa, Shino (2012), “Dichotomies between "Classical" and "Folk" in the Intangible Cultural Properties of Japan”, in Howard, K. (Ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage. Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions, Ashgate, London, pp. 181–195.

Arizpe, Lourdes and Amescua, Cristina (Eds.) (2013), Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Springer, Dordrecht (Netherlands), London.

Aso, Noriko (2014), Public Properties. Museums in Imperial Japan, Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Duke University Press, Durham.

Baba Kenichi 馬場 憲一 (2013), “Chiiki shugi jitsugen no tame no jichitai bunkawai seisaku nitsuite” 地域主権実現のための自治体文化財政策について [Research on the Cultural Property Policy of Local Government for the Realization of Local Sovereignty], Gendai fukushi kenkyû, No. 13, pp. 1–22.

Baumert, Nicolas (2011), Le sake: Une exception japonaise [Sake: A Japanese Exception], Tables des Hommes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes; Presses universitaires François-Rabelais de Tours, Rennes, Tours.

Beazley, Olwen (2010), “Politics and Power: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) as World Heritage”, in Labadi, S. and Long, C. (Eds.), Heritage and Globalisation, Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, England, New York, pp. 45–65.

Beazley, Olwen and Deacon, Harriet (2007), “The Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage Values under the World Heritage Convention: Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Robben Island”, in Blake, J. (Ed.), Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Approaches. A Collection of Essays, Institute of Art and Law, Builth Wells [Wales], pp. 93–108.

Bourdier, Marc (1993), “Le mythe et l'industrie ou la protection du patrimoine culturel au Japon [The Myth and the Industry, or the Protetcion of Cultural Heritage in Japan]”, Genèses, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 82–110.

Brau, Lorie (2008), Rakugo. Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo, Lexington Books, Lanham.

Brumann, Christoph (2006), “Whose Kyoto? Competing Models of Local Autonomy and the Townscape in the Old Imperial Capital”, in Hein, C. and Pelletier, P. (Eds.), Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan, Routledge Contemporary Japan Series, Routledge, London, New York, pp. 139–163.

Brumann, Christoph (2009), “Outside the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto”, American Ethnologist, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 276–299.

Brumann, Christoph (2012), “Re-Uniting a Divided City: High-Rises, Conflict and Urban Space in Central Kyoto”, in Brumann, C. and Schulz, E. (Eds.), Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives, Routledge, London, New York, pp. 53–73.

Brumann, Christoph (2012), Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto. Claiming a Right to the Past, Japan Anthropology Workshop Series, Routledge, London.

Brumann, Christoph (2013), “Comment le patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco devient immatériel [Cultivating Elusiveness: the Intangibilisation of UNESCO World Heritage]”, Gradhiva, No. 18, pp. 22–49.

Brumann, Christoph (2013), Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past, Japan Anthropology Workshop Series, [Paperback ed.], Routledge, London.

Brumann, Christoph (2014), “Heritage Agnosticism: A Third Path for the Study of Cultural Heritage”, Social Anthropology, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 173–188.

Brumann, Christoph and Cox, Rupert A. (Eds.) (2010), Making Japanese Heritage, Japan Anthropology Workshop Series, Routledge, London, New York.

Brumann, Christoph and Schulz, Evelyn (Eds.) (2012), Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives, Routledge, London, New York.

Bunka-chô 文化庁 [Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan (ACA)] (2001), Bunka-zai hogo-hô gojû nenshi 文化財保護法五十年史 [50-year History of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties], Gyôsei, Tokyo.

Cang, Voltaire G. (2007), “Defining Intangible Cultural Heritage and Its Stakeholders: The Case of Japan”, International Journal of Intangible Heritage, No. 2, pp. 46–55.

Cang, Voltaire G. (2008), “Preserving Intangible Heritage in Japan: the Role of the Iemoto System”, International Journal of Intangible Heritage, Vol. 3, pp. 71–81.

Cavaye, Ronald, Griffith, Paul and Senda, Akihiko (2004), A Guide to the Japanese Stage: From Traditional to Cutting Edge, 1st ed., Kodansha International Ltd; Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York.

Choi, Don (2009), “Meiji Restorations: Defining Preservation, Education, and Architecture for Modern Japan”, Preservation Education and Research, Vol. 2, pp. 1–14.

Coaldrake, William H. (1996), Architecture and Authority in Japan, Routledge, London.

Cooper, Malcolm J.M., Ogata, Masakatsu and Eades, Jeremy S. (2008), “Heritage Tourism in Japan. A Synthesis and Comment.”, in Prideaux, B., Timothy, D.J. and Chon, K.S. (Eds.), Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, London, New York, pp. 107–117.

Cwiertka, Katarzyna (2006), Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, Reaktion Books, London.

Edwards, Walter (2000), “Contested Access: The Imperial Tombs in the Postwar Period”, Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 371–392.

Edwards, Walter (2005), “Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and Postwar Legacies”, in Robertson, J. (Ed.), A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, pp. 36–49.

Failla, Donatella (2004), “Protection of Cultural Properties in Japan (Part 1)”, Journal of Japanese Law, Vol. 9 No. 18, pp. 67–107.

Figal, Gerald (2008), “Between War and Tropics: Heritage Tourism in Postwar Okinawa”, The Public Historian, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 83–107.

Foley, Kathy (2014), “No More Masterpieces: Tangible Impacts and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Bordered Worlds”, Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 369–398.

Foster, Michael D. (2011), “The UNESCO Effect: Confidence, Defamiliarization, and a New Element in the Discourse on a Japanese Island”, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 48 No. 1, pp. 63–107.

Francis-Lindsay, Janice (2009), “The Intrinsic Value of Cultural Heritage and Its Relationship to Sustainable Tourism Development: The Contrasting Experiences of Jamaica and Japan”, Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 55 No. 2, pp. 151–168.

Gillan, Matt (2012), “Whose Heritage? Cultural Properties Legislation and Regional Identity in Okinawa”, in Howard, K. (Ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage. Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions, Ashgate, London, pp. 213–228.

Goto, Kazuko (2013), “Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan: How It Relates to Creativity”, in Rizzo, I. and Mignosa, A. (Eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 567–585.

Guth, Christine M. E. (1996), “Kokuhô: From Dynastic to Artistic Treasure”, Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 313–322.

Han, Jung-Sun N. (2012), “Conserving the Heritage of Shame: War Remembrance and War-Related Sites in Contemporary Japan”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 42 No. 3, pp. 493–513.

Hein, Carola and Pelletier, Philippe (Eds.) (2006), Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan, Routledge Contemporary Japan Series, Vol. 7, Routledge, London, New York.

Howard, Keith (Ed.) (2012), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage. Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions, Ashgate, London.

Ikebe, Konomi (2012), “A Study about the Japanese Landscape Law Including Cultural Landscape and Historic City Preservation and Restoration Act”, Shoku to midori no kagaku, No. 66, pp. 1–9.

Inaba, Nobuko (2005), “The Ise Shrine and the Gion Festival: Case-studies on the Values and Authenticity of Japanese Living Religious Heritage”, in Stovel, H., Stanley-Price, N. and Killick, R. (Eds.), Conservation of Living Religious Heritage, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, 20-22 October 2003, ICCROM, pp. 44–57.

Inaba, Nobuko (2009), “Authenticity and Heritage Concepts: Tangible and Intangible -Discussions in Japan”, in Stanley-Price, N. and King, J. (Eds.), Conserving the Authentic: Essays in Honour of Jukka Jokilehto, ICCROM Conservation Series, ICCROM, Rome, pp. 153–162.

Inada Takashi 稲田孝司 (2014), Nihon to furansu no iseki hogo: Kôkogaku to hô, gyôsei, shimin undô 日本とフランスの遺跡保護 考古学と法・行政・市民運動 [Protection of Archeological Sites in Japan and France: Archeology, Law, Administration and Citizens' Movements], Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.

Iwata, Mari (2013), “Japan Awaiting Heritage Status Decision on Its Food”, available at: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/10/15/japan-awaiting-heritage-status-decision-on-its-food/ (accessed 18 February 2015).

Japan Foundation (Ed.) (2004), Okinawa International Forum 2004, Utaki in Okinawa and Sacred Spaces in Asia, Community Development and Cultural Heritage.

Kakiuchi, Emiko (2014), “Cultural Heritage Protection System in Japan: Current Issues and Prospects for the Future”, GRIPS Discusion Paper, 14-10.

Kawada, Tsukasa and Hayashi‐Denis, Nao (2004), “Cooperation between UNESCO and Japan in the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage”, Museum International, Vol. 56 No. 4, pp. 32–39.

Kawamura Tsuneaki川村恒明, Neki Akira根木昭and Wada Katsuhiko 和田勝彦 (2002), Bunkazai seisaku gairon: Bunka isan hogo no arata na tenkai ni mukete 文化財政策概論―文化遺産保護の新たな展開に向けて [Outline of Cultural Property Policy: Toward a New Development in the Protection of Cultural Heritage], Tôkai Daigaku Shuppankai, Tokyo.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara (2004), “Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production”, Museum International, Vol. 56 No. 1-2, pp. 52–65.

Kono, Toshiyuki (2004), “Keynote Speech - The Basic Principles of the Convention for Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage: A Comparative Analysis with the Convention for Protection of World Natural and Cultural Heritage and Japanese Law”, in Japan Foundation (Ed.), Okinawa International Forum 2004, Utaki in Okinawa and Sacred Spaces in Asia, Community Development and Cultural Heritage, pp. 37–43.

Kono, Toshiyuki (Ed.) (2010), The Impact of Uniform Laws on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, Boston.

Kunik, Damien (2014), “De l’objet manufacturé au patrimoine matériel: de la valeur de l’artisanat dans le Japon moderne [From Manufactured Goods to Tangible Heritage: The Value of Crafts in Modern Japan]”, Ebisu, No. 50, pp. 161–186.

Labadi, Sophia and Long, Colin (Eds.) (2010), Heritage and Globalisation, Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, Routledge, Milton Park et al.

Liebs, Chester H. (1998), “Listing of Tangible Cultural Properties: Expanded Recognition for Historic Buildings in Japan”, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 679–697.

Liebs, Chester H. (1998), “Listing of Tangible Cultural Properties: Expanded Recongnition for Historic Buildings in Japan”, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 679–697.

Loo, Tze M. (2014), Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000, Asia World, Lexington Books, Lanham.

McDermott, Hiroko T. (2006), “The Hōryūji Treasures and Early Meiji Cultural Policy”, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 61 No. 3, pp. 339–374.

McGuire, Mark P. (2013), “What's at Stake in Designating Japan's Sacred Mountains as UNESCO World Heritage Sites? Shugendo Practices in the Kii Peninsula”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 323–354.

McNeill, David (2013), “Them vs. Us. Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis”, in Gill, T., Steger, B. and Slater, D.H. (Eds.), Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011, Lang, Oxford, pp. 127–149.

Miyata, Shigeyuki (2013), “Intangible Cultural Heritage Policy in Japan”, in Arizpe, L. and Amescua, C. (Eds.), Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Springer, Dordrecht (Netherlands), London, pp. 83–102.

Miyata Shigeyuki 宮田繁幸 (2011), “Kiro ni tatsu mukeibunkaisan hogo jôyaku” 岐路に立つ無形文化遺産保護条約 [The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at a Crossroad], Mukeibunkaisan kenkyû hôkoku, No. 6, pp. 1–19.

Mizoguchi, Kōji (2006), Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), New York.

Nanaumi Yumiko 七海 ゆみ子 (2012), Mukeibunkaisan to wa nanika: UNESCO no mukeibunkaisan o aratana shiten de kaisetsusuru hon 無形文化遺産とは何か: ユネスコの無形文化遺産を新たな視点で解説する本 [What is Intangible Cultural Heritage? The Book which Explains UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage from a New Point of View], Sairyûsha, Tokyo.

Nunokawa, Hiroshi (2007), “Machizukuri and Historical Awareness in the Old Town of Kobe”, in Sorensen, A. and Funck, C. (Eds.), Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments, Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series, Routledge, London, New York, pp. 172–186.

Okamoto, Shirō (2001), The Man Who Saved Kabuki; Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.

Pai, Hyung I. (2013), Heritage Management in Korea and Japan. The Politics of Antiquity and Identity., University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Pettman, Ralph (2001), “The Japanese Concept of Heritage in its Global Politico-Cultural Context”, Asian Studies Institute Working Paper, Vol. 17.

Prideaux, Bruce, Timothy, Dallen J. and Chon, Kaye S. (Eds.) (2008), Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, London, New York.

Rizzo, Ilde and Mignosa, Anna (Eds.) (2013), Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Robertson, Jennifer (1988), “Furusato Japan: The Culture and Politics of Nostalgia”, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 494–518.

Robertson, Jennifer (Ed.) (2005), A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA.

Russell, James E. (2011), “Cultural Properties and Heritage in Japan”, Ph.D., SOAS, University of London, London, 2011.

Saito, Hidetoshi (1996), “The History and Principles Behind Japan's Cultural Cooperation Cooperation in the Preservation of Cultural Heriatge”, The Japan Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 24 No. 3.

Sand, Jordan (2013), Tokyo Vernacular. Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects, University of California Press.

Savage, Theresa and Longo, Michael (2013), “Legal Frameworks for the Protection of Ainu Language and Culture in Japan: International and European Perspectives”, Japanese Studies, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 101–120.

Scott, Geoffrey R., “The Cultural Property Laws of Japan: Social, Political, and Legal Influences”, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal.

Scott, Geoffrey R. (2008), “Spoliation, Cultural Property, and Japan”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 803–902.

Seidel, Anna (1981), “Kokuhō. Note à propos du terme "trésor national" en Chine et au Japon”, Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. 69 No. 1, pp. 229–261.

Shintani Takanori 新谷尚紀 (2011), Minzokugaku to wa nani ka - Yanagita, Origuchi, Shibusawa ni manabinaosu 民俗学とは何か―柳田・折口・渋沢に学び直す [What are Folklore Studies? Relearning from Yanagita, Origuchi and Shibusawa], Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Tokyo.

Siegenthaler, Peter (1999), “The Ningen Kokuhô: A New Symbol for the Japanese Nation”, Andon, No. 62, pp. 3–16.

Siegenthaler, Peter (2003), “Creation Myths for the Preservation of Tsumago Post-town”, Planning Forum, No. 9, pp. 29–45.

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