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Cultural Restitution
January 25, 2020
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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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In a handover ceremony at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford this week, a cherished cultural object – a sunhat taken violently by British colonisers during punitive expeditions to Sarawak - was returned to the Kenyah Badeng community
