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Sending Professional Staff to Asian Countries and Others

The NDL sends speakers to international conferences in Asia and dispatches instructors to support preservation activities in Asian countries.

Date Country Dispatched Purpose Reference
November 18 - 20, 2013 Thailand Naoko Kobayashi International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Reduction (Bangkok,2013)  
August 26 - 31, 2012 Thailand Michiko Kawanabe
Naoko Murakami
Workshop on Flooding Disaster Preparedness and Response for the Protection of Documentary Heritage of Local Communities in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand  
December 9, 2010 Korea Kosuke Murakami The 3rd International Preservation Conference "Digital Preservation and Its Research in the National Diet Library (NDL) focused on electronic materials" (PDF: 419KB)
News on International cooperation December 8-10, 2010
June 22 – 23, 2010 China Noriko Nakamura
Satoko Muramoto
International Conference on "Preservation and the Four Elements" "Report of Activities IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia" (PDF: 5.32MB)
"Control of preservation environment in the National Diet Library" (PDF: 2.9MB)
News on International cooperation June 22-26, 2010
July 7 - 11, 2008 Korea Kaoru Oshima
Satoko Muramoto
The KOREA-CHINA-JAPAN International Conference on Preservation "National Diet Library's Efforts in Information Sharing and Cooperation on Preservation" (PDF: 68KB)
"Condition Survey on Japanese Books Held by the National Diet Library" (PDF: 239KB)
(National Diet Library Newsletter No. 162, August 2008)
January 17 - 18, 2007 China Yukiko Saito
Naoko Kobayashi
The KOREA-CHINA-JAPAN International Conference on Preservation "Action Plan 2006-2008" (PDF: 32KB)
"Preservation and Mass Conservation at the National Diet Library"
November 26 - December 2, 2006 Nepal Kiyonobu Isaka Sent to Nepal National Library and Asa Archives to give advice on preservation and conservation  
February 5 - 15, 2006 USA Masakazu Kuba Sent to University of Maryland McKeldin Library to provide technical guidance for microfilming project of the Prange collection  
February 1 - 10, 2004 Nepal Takao Murayama Lecture and condition survey on preservation and conservation in Nepalese libraries and archives To Protect Irreplaceable Documentary Heritage at the Foot of the Himalayas -- Report of Visit to Nepal by Takao Murayama (National Diet Library Newsletter, No. 139, October 2004)
June 5-8, 2002 Korea Takao Murayama The Regional Training Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Documentary Heritage in Asia and the Pacific The Regional Training Workshop on the Preservation of and Access to Documentary Heritage in Asia and the Pacific (National Diet Library Newsletter No. 126, August 2002)
March 14 - 29, 2000 Indonesia
Malaysia
Viet Nam
Masakazu Kuba Survey on preservation and conservation in national libraries in Southeast Asia  
January 3 - 11, 2000 India Akio Yasue Workshop held by Indian National Trsut for Art and Cultural heritage (INTACH)  
July 6 - 17, 1997 Myanmar Hideo Sugawara Workshop and survey on preservation and restoration of old paper materials in Myanmar  
November 29 - December 21, 1996 Egypt Teruo Kobayashi
Kazuo Nishizono
Sent to National Library and Archives of Egypt to give lectures and provide technical support for preservation of ancient documents  
February 27 - March 14, 1996 Mongolia Tomiyasu Kaneko
Masahiro Yamada
Sent to the State Central Library of Mongolia to support preservation planning  
December 11, 1995 - January 21, 1996 America Takao Shimamura Sent to University of Maryland to give advice on the care and maintenance of Prange newspaper collection  
January 10 - March 11, 1994 Indonesia Katutoshi Marusawa Sent to SOLO Royal Library to provide technical support for conservation and restoration of precious old archives  
September 24 - December 23, 1992 United Kingdom Seiji Oyama Sent to the Bodleian Library of Oxford University to give advice on restoration of old Japanese books  
December 2, 1991 - March 1, 1992 Indonesia Akio Yasue
Masakazu Kuba
Sent to National Library of Indonesia to provide technical assistance in preservation and conservation  
June 19 - July 30, 1989 Indonesia Akio Yasue Sent to National Library of Indonesia to support preservation planning  

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