What is the job of the Cultural Heritage Committee?
What is the job of the Cultural Heritage Committee?
The Cultural Heritage Committee investigates and deliberates matters regarding the conservation, management, and utilization of cultural properties. The matters subject to its deliberation are: designation of state-designated cultural properties and protective zones and cancellation of such designation; recognition of a holder of any important intangible cultural properties and cancellation of such recognition; issuance of a permit for altering the form of any state-designated cultural property or for taking any state-designated cultural property abroad; issuance of an order to perform substantial repair works or restoration of any state-designated cultural property; excavation of buried cultural properties; and other important matters concerning the conservation, management, and utilization of cultural properties.
The job descriptions of each subcommittee are as follows:
Subcommittee on Architectural Heritage: matters concerning buildings and structures among tangible cultural properties
Subcommittee on Movable Cultural Heritage: matters concerning tangible cultural properties other than buildings and structures
Subcommittee on Historic Sites: matters concerning historic sites and particularly commemorable facilities among monuments
Subcommittee on Intangible Cultural Properties: matters concerning intangible cultural properties
Subcommittee on Natural Monuments: matters concerning animal or plant, geological features or caves, scenic spots and other natural monuments
Subcommittee on Buried Cultural Properties: matters concerning buried cultural properties, compensation, reward money and etc
Subcommittee on Modern Cultural Heritage: matters concerning registered cultural properties
Subcommittee on Folklore Cultural Heritage: matters concerning folklore cultural properties
Subcommittee on World Heritage: matters concerning the registration of World Heritage
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