
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...