30/05/2025

IRCI participated in the Fourteenth Session of the Governing Board Meeting of CRIHAP

The fourteenth session of the Governing Board Meeting of the International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP) was held on 29 April 2025 in Beijing, China. In addition to t…

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15/08/2024

Open call for cases on ICH Safeguarding for Sustainable Development from the Asia-Pacific Region

The International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP) is inviting interested institutions and individuals to submit cases of programmes, activities, projects, and other pra…

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15/06/2023

UNESCO’s animation series on ICH and education now available in Japanese

UNESCO Animation series: Teaching and Learning with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific are added with a new Japanese-subtitled version. IRCI has contributed to the Japanese translation of these video clips. Please visit the followin…

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01/05/2023

IRCI official YouTube channel launched

IRCI is pleased to announce that it has just launched an official YouTube channel to enhance its outreach activities. To begin with, video recordings of three online seminars for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region held in FY 2022 are made av…

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22/12/2022

IRCI promoted its research activities at the 17.COM (Rabat, Morocco, 28 November – 3 December 2022)

IRCI participated in the seventeenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (17.COM), which was held from 28 November to 3 December 2022 in Rabat, Morocco. Also, as a side event, IRCI set u…

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25/11/2022

‘Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding’ and its Facebook group launched

IRCI recently created a new platform, ‘Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding’, for enhancing research and international collaboration among ICH researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. This Forum offers programmes such as online seminars an…

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25/11/2022

IRCI Official Facebook page

IRCI has launched its official Facebook page. On this page, we will post news about ongoing projects and information on upcoming events and publications. Please follow us to find out about our latest activities: https://www.facebook.com/IRCI.Official…

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03/03/2022

Online Lecture on ICH to the students of ASEAN countries (24 February 2022)

Mr IWAMOTO, Director General of IRCI gave a lecture on the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) to 20 students from ASEAN countries, Timor Leste, and Japan on 24 February 2022. The lecture attracted the students by illustrating the characteristics of I…

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18/09/2019

The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage exhibits a booth at ICOM Kyoto 2019 (September 2019)

From September 1st to 7th, 2019, the 25th ICOM (International Council of Museums) General Conference was held in Japan for the first time. More than 4,500 curators and researchers of museums from 120 countries and regions all over the world gathered …

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15/12/2017

IRCI Held a Panel Exhibition as the side event of 12th Session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (December 2017)

IRCI held a panel exhibition from 1 to 9 Dec 2017 at the side event of “The twelfth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)” and “ICH NGO Capacity Building Workshop” which took place i…

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21/06/2016

IRCI was introduced at the Tokyo Symposium on Cultural Heritage

IRCI was introduced in the panel discussion at the Tokyo Symposium on Cultural Heritage (225 attendees) held on 14 May 2016 at Heiseikan, Tokyo National Museum. IRCI information panels were also displayed in the lobby. (Co-organisers: Sakai City, Nat…

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24/12/2015

Lecture at Takezono Higashi Junior High School

On 21 November 2015, Misako Ohnuki, Deputy Director-General of IRCI made a lecture entitled “Louvre Museum and the World Heritage Convention in the context of World History” to students at Takezono Higashi Junior High School in Tsukuba City. It was t…

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15/01/2015

Lecture at Takezono Higashi Junior High School

On 20 December 2014, Misako Ohnuki, Deputy Director-General of IRCI made a lecture entitled “The World Heritage Convention and Japan’s Contribution” to students at Takezono Higashi Junior High School in Tsukuba City. She also introduced activities of…

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03/08/2012

IRCI Commences Cooperation Activities with SAC

IRCI signed a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) concerning research activities for intangible cultural heritage in Asia and the Pacific with the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC). The signing ceremony of the MOU between the tw…

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