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Italy Accuses Japan Of Looting

Postby Mulboyne » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:23 pm

[floatl]Image[/floatl]IHT: Italy to ask Japan to return antiquities allegedly looted
Italian authorities suspect that some Roman antiquities in Japanese museums may have been looted, a news report said Thursday amid efforts by Italy to recover relics of its rich past it says were smuggled out of the country. The Italian government plans to put together a catalog of about 100 ancient treasures and ask the Japanese Cultural Affairs Agency to cooperate in recovering them, Japan's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported from Rome, citing unnamed Italian prosecutors. About 50 of the 100 allegedly smuggled items currently reside in the Miho Museum, a private museum in Shiga, western Japan...The report did not say when the suspected items were taken to Japan...more...
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Postby Mulboyne » Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:21 am

Yomiuri: Witness fingers Japanese museum in Italian art-trafficking case
The expert witness for the prosecution in a trial in Italy over the trafficking of stolen art objects to the United States has claimed a Japanese museum is housing items unearthed illegally in Italy. As the witness named the Miho Museum in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, the Italian prosecutors likely will begin a full-scale investigation into possible trafficking of stolen items into Japan, sources said. The expert, who has been investigating trafficking connected to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, named the museum in an effort to shed light on the practice of art objects being illegally dug up and passed on to museums in countries other than the United States.

According to the expert, some artwork housed in the Miho Museum, including a decorative sculpture of marble from ancient Rome, known as an oscilla, were identified from pictures of stolen items seized from a smuggling syndicate by the prosecutors. The prosecutors have been investigating the smuggling ring, which has sold antiques illegally unearthed from archaeological sites and other places and shipped them to museums in Japan, the United States and other countries since the mid-1990s. The investigation led prosecutors to the United States. The J. Paul Getty Museum is believed to have obtained many antiques from a syndicate based in Switzerland, and a curator and an American antique art dealer were charged with smuggling as they are believed to have cooperated with the syndicate. The trial is taking place in a Rome criminal court.

The Italian prosecutors have also confirmed a Japanese antique art dealer was involved in dealing between the syndicate and Japanese museums, sources said. The investigators are said to be trying to match seized pictures with suspicious items housed in several Japanese museums. Nobuo Tsuji, director of the Miho Museum, said: "I don't think all artwork housed in our museum has a legal problem. But if the Italian government officially asks us to return certain items, we'll consider how to proceed then."
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