Japan Traditional Cultures Foundation
Established as a public service enterprise to investigate, record, store and publish the traditional arts and cultures of Japan. They have created the “Historical Records Archive,” which exists to preserve traditional music for the future, and worked with multidisciplinary efforts with record makers in the education and artistic genres. Through finding, recording, preserving, and making available excellent examples of the nation’s intangible cultural heritage and folklore cultural assets, which might otherwise be lost, they hope to restore and spread Japan’s traditional culture with both future generations of Japanese and with the entire world.