by Liu Tian
TOKYO Avery Bradley Authentic Jersey , Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- As almost two and a half years have passed since the catastrophic quake and tsunami hit Japan's northeast area in March 2011, it seems that painful memories brought by the disaster is quietly fading away.
However, amid slow cleanup and reconstruction process, local communities call for more supports and cooperation, both national and international and from both public and private sectors, to save damaged culture heritages in the affected region, saying it is a core issue to restore daily life of local residents.
According to the Agency for Culture Affairs under Japan's culture ministry, about 714 designated national treasures, important culture properties, historic sites and other monuments have been damaged due to the calamity as of July 29, 2011. However, the total number would be much larger if the non-designated and non-registered are included.
Satoshi Yamato, councilor on culture properties at the culture properties department at the agency, said that the government allocated about 25 million U.S. dollars in the fiscal 2012 to help save the national culture treasures.
"We should maintain allocating necessary fund in every year to carry out the project," Yamato told Xinhua on Saturday in Kesennuma city, one of the hardest-hit areas by the 2011 disaster in the Miyagi prefecture, adding that it will be about 20 million dollars in the 2013 fiscal year as the recovery of the heritages across the affected area has been improved.
The councilor said that infrastructure constructing of the affected communities has been moving smoothly, but "we still have a lot of things to do to rebuild people's daily life. Culture properties have the best meaning for each community."
Collaborating with funding support from private sectors, the agency has supported several kinds of activities such as workshops and culture property tours by private sector leaders and other communities in an effort to evoke more awareness from not only the disaster-hit area, but also from Tokyo, Japan and the rest of the world.
Takeyama rice store and its residential place, one of the Kesennuma's national registered culture properties that completed in October 1930, was seriously damaged as its front pillar was swept away by the powerful tsunami.
Seiko Takeyama, the owner of the property, said she wanted to abandon the house after the disaster due to the fatal damage.
"I don't want to bring troubles to others, so I gave up after the event," she told Xinhua, "but our community persuaded me to preserve the building and they will help restore the property."
Mitsuo Inagaki, World Monuments Fund's representative for Japan, said that cultural heritage such as historic buildings and traditional performance arts have the best meaning for the total people in the community and are deeply woven to daily life of many local residents, especially the senior.
"It was not only the culture property, it means much further. The buildings represent local people's life that they get used to. To restore the property means not to recover the buildings themselves, it means to revive the community and to bring their real life back," said Inagaki, who visited the affected area many times to help them restore the culture properties as an international aid.
Along with other four national registered culture properties, Takeyama rice store is just under a condition of urgent repair as the final restore plan will be mapped out when the city and local communities achieve an agreement on how to rebuild the city, such to what extent the land should rise higher so as to prevent tsunami.
In another badly damaged city of Ishinomaki, an ancient orthodox church was also destroyed by tsunami that penetrated the church directly from front door to back door, almost smashing everything inside but, fortunately, left the architecture framework.
The church, one of the Japanese oldest wooden churches, also faces difficulties to be repaired as it is a city designated tangible culture property, as the Japanese government will not allocate fund to restore the building protected by the municipality independently. And local community only collected about 40 percent of the budget that could afford the repair. "Support from governments varies depending on current laws and regulation and this explain the needs of support from private sectors," said Inagaki. "It is significant not only in terms of architectural history, but for providing spiritual support to the region.. it is valuable as a symbol of recovery from the disaster. "
Meanwhile, some local communities are also struggling to recover their intangible folk culture property.
Residents from Onagawa have been trying to make new masks of their traditional lion dance in efforts to call on people to return back to their hometown, as a large number of population has left the area after the disaster.
"We could strengthen the unity of our community by the lion dance, our tradition," said Eiichi Hiratsuka, manager of Onagawa lion dance tradition recovery, adding that the tradition could put off evil things and bring luck to families.
According to Yamato, expecntry have been mobilized to endeavor in the cause of restore Japan's culture heritages in the affected area, adding his agency will kick off works in former hazard zones in Fukushima prefecture, which was suffered world's worst nuclear disaster after the tsunami.
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