Purchase, designated national treasure(expansion)

[achievement goals 12-2-2]

 

Fiscal year 2009 request amount: 2, 649 million JPY

(March 20, 2003 budget: 1, 587 million JPY)

Fiscal year start:-fiscal year

Businesses are given:-fiscal year

-Administrative Division (Division name)

 Cultural agency cultural Department art curatorial Department (Tatsuji OYAMA)

-Relations Division (Division name)

 

●Business Overview, etc.

1. Business purpose

Equivalent national treasures and important cultural properties, and these cultural assets

(hereafter referred to as 'national treasures and important cultural properties,"and")

of protect cultural goods may

cause deterioration or damage as well as prevent dissipation in the domestic and international

conservation and management measures shall aim to purchase country urgently need the proper storage

management implementation and with public leverage to the exhibition.

2. Business process and results so far

Chattel in national treasures and important cultural properties, and always presents a potential

deterioration or leakage associated with proper storage management is not performed by dissipation

due to be resold and the owner does not have the expertise heritage protection law

(1950 law No. 214)

enacted after carrying out purchase by State national treasures and important cultural properties, etc..

Recently, due to bankruptcy of the owners of cultural property the cultural assets are disposed cases are

increasing. Also a growing risk of dissipation of valuable cultural assets, and where there be auctioning

cultural properties of Japan abroad by private owners, such as speculative trading.

 

•Past purchase experience for five years of national treasures and important cultural

properties, and the amount.

 

 

	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Number of cases	30	9	10	24	18
National Treasure class	0	2	1	0	0
Important cultural property class	14	2	5	2	6
Important art class	2	3	1	0	3
Out unspecified	14	2	3	22	9
Purchase amount (JPY)	2,017,663,000	1,502,000,000	1,492,250,000	1,163,500,000	1,519,250,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Business Overview

If you purchase such as national treasures and important cultural properties and intend in designated

pursuant to the provisions of article 46 of the cultural properties protection law, has become the owner

transfer partner, scheduled consideration of the matters specified by an Ordinance stating with the

Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs to offer for sale to the country to. Country perspective

of cultural heritage protection or et al (to the public if the public notice) must be notified if deemed

necessary to save the purchase in the country the applicant buys for.

In this case, must buy at the price equal to the amount of scheduled consideration stated in the

application form. Little case actually made a purchase based on the relevant provisions.

You may also direct sale offer is made to countries irrespective of the provisions of article 46 of the

cultural properties protection law. In fact in this case should.

In this case, cultural agency investigators search through 'national treasures and important cultural

properties buy take-out "terms and conditions (4/1/1971 Cultural Services Agency Secretary arbitrage)

based on property for each of academics from five or more ' purchase talks ' Commission and to hear

opinions about the purchase of such cultural property, also commissioned by the evaluation fellow

more than 5 people in each property to, decide that evaluation (the price).

Purchase acquisition Council and evaluation meeting will be fair because, for properties to buy and

choose a disinterested person, also information regarding the property owner's name or sale discount

price obviously has not.

The Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs bills offer price from the owner or evaluation

assessment results determine purchase price as the basis. Typically, lower the offer price or evaluation

price decide as the purchase price. If the acquisition of important cultural property Advisory Council

for culture and the report to do.

To expose the cultural properties bought the Agency for Cultural Affairs implemented [a new national

treasure"exhibition from 2003. Also, make free rental in the public museum, National Museum, etc.,

are committed to public use.

In the outline in 2009, Agency for Cultural Affairs had brought the national treasures and important cultural properties and photo for Cultural Affairs will be in.

 

4. Indicators and targets

[Index]

Buy take-out left number etc. must purchase, as a country, national treasure and important cultural

property

Etc. must purchase, as a country, national treasure and important cultural property purchases take

number (another specified area)

[Indicators]

Without

[Goal]

Preventing dissipation of national treasures and important cultural properties, to save properly.

[Understanding how to effect]

Understanding by the procedures of the cultural properties protection law, antiquities export audit

certification by

 

● Business advance evaluation results

A. Relationship with FY 2007

evaluation results

Preservation and utilization of cultural properties appropriate for a key that prevents dissipated within

or outside of the cultural heritage of the country purchase acquisition budget to expand.

 

B. Point of need

1. The business necessity

Proper retention by the owner has not done, despite vulnerable are concerned the dissipation at home

and abroad by that let individual reasons such as protracted recession by social and economic

conditions in recent years, owner or resold national treasures and important cultural properties, etc., is

composed of multiple 1-national treasure and important cultural properties, etc., etc., and cultural

material is being made because of high danger of deterioration or damage situation.

In proper storage management implementation and also contribute to the published application to the

exhibition, purchase urgently need to take conservation and management measures in the country from

this cultural heritage.

 

2. Need for involvement of Government and national public and private, national and

regional responsibilities, etc.

 

Pertaining to the preservation and utilization of cultural properties in the local government budget and

decreasing year by year, purchases have become difficult. Also, perform, acquisition of cultural

property based on its own policy in the National Museum of the country doing business differ in

personality. Like this from country responsibly national treasures and important cultural properties, etc.

properly saved to must manage.

 

3. Relations and related policies

Related initiatives measures objective 12-2

1 Exemption transfer income tax important cultural asset to the country, individual owners, etc.

Individual's country with cultural

(including national cultural heritage organization, independent

administrative institution National Museum, National Museum of nature and science.)

or that are not

income tax on capital gains if you transfer to local governments,

(2 tax article 40, paragraph 1).

1 State-owned cultural property save repair (arts, art, cultural agency cultural heritage section)

Was nationalized by purchase businesses such as national treasures and important cultural properties

cultural properties of the damage is very severe, especially that sense of urgency about sequential doing

repairs.

1 Because of a new national "— cultural agency purchase culture goods exhibition —" (arts, art,

cultural agency cultural heritage section)

Utilizes a to provide cultural heritage appreciation opportunities to the public, public, bought new in

cultural Affairs, national treasure and important cultural properties and utilization.

Relations and related policies

Because of cultural properties bought in national treasures and important cultural properties, purchase

business country about quite significant damage, urgency, promote conservation and management

properly in State-owned cultural property repair project, and people watching opportunities to improve

"because of a new national

( —cultural agency purchase culture goods exhibition —)

' seminars actively seeks assets.

 

To complement the purchase operations, and tax exemption measures have been taken on the transfer

income tax if you transfer cultural assets such as country etc. for personal, as acting.

 

4. Policy speech to the Council's report, etc.

1 "Basic policy on the promotion of culture and the Arts (No. 2 the following basic policy)

(2/9/2007, Cabinet decision)

enhance cultural preservation and utilization of the Charm until today, nurtured, was born in the long

history of cultural heritage is the cornerstone of social development cannot be valuable property of the

public has been told, and indispensable for the understanding of our nation's history, traditions, culture

and at the same time, in. Among recent rapid social changes in the effectiveness of the Save and use to

promote.

For this reason, building momentum with preservation of cultural properties by State and local

governments and take advantage of community cultural familiarity as public property, protecting the

should be.

 

C. Point of view of the effectiveness of

1. Goal achieved

Make appropriate purchases, committed to the preservation and use of cultural heritage, seeks to

prevent the dissipation of valuable cultural assets.

2. Top goal for a required effect is achieved?

Think, lead to prevent the dissipation of valuable cultural assets can make appropriate purchases.

 

D. Point of view of efficiency

1. Input

The project budget is 2, 766 million JPY

(purchase costs important cultural treasure, etc.).

 

2. Output

Candidate listings need to store management bought in the country is now 44 and total amounts to

approximately 9 billions JPY.

To dealer as soon as possible, and increase the expenses required to

purchase for valuable national property to inherit to the next generation to ensure there are national

treasures and important cultural properties, etc.. 44 Past purchase experience, and be 2.7

billions JPY.

 

3. Efficiency of business scheme

Be appropriate for the relationship between input and output of the project to consider cultural project

budgets against the dissipation may cause the proper past purchase experience.

4. Compared to alternative

In countries other than the local governments, but decreasing budgets and, outside the country by

purchasing enough effect cannot be expected.

E. Point of view of fairness

By purchasing a country fairness will be secured.

F. Terms of priority of

Cultural disposition of property associated with the bankruptcy of the owners, because the purchase of

urgently needed and more, this business I think policies should be a priority.

G. Summative evaluation and propagation policies

To ensure the preservation and use of cultural assets is the possibility of dissipation, etc. to reflect the

FY2009 budget request.

 

-Findings and policy response

[Note]

1. General findings for the business (as noted in the Secretariat)

Evaluation results are reasonable.