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Dear Mr. Sonam Wangdue,

(Formal Japanese greeting that cannot be translated in English…)

We have received your letter posted on July 13.

As a museum, we deliberate the decision to hold exhibitions based on the cultural value of the materials.
We highly value the artifacts that will be exhibited in “Tibet: Treasures from Roof of the World” in this fall.

For inquiries on the statements and the contents of the exhibition, please contact:

“Executive Committee of the Tibet Exhibition”
Director of the Committee: Mr. Taisuke Tsurumaki
Daiko Advertising Inc.
5-2-20 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Tel: +81-3-6364-8111  Fax:+81-3-5563-8933

Mikio Suzuki
Director of a Bureau
Foundation of Japanese Arts Committee
The Ueno Royal Museum

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Above is the response from the Ueno Royal Museum to our open letter. It mentions about the “Executive Committee of the Tibet Exhibition” in Daiko Advertising Co. who is one of the main sponsors of the exhibition.
Therefore, we have contacted the “Executive Committee of the Tibet Exhibition” by phone. Here’s what they said:

-Although he(who answered the phone) couldn’t talk about his personal opinion on the phone, the committee has received our claims with sincerity.
-Our claims has already been submitted as a meeting agenda.  The members of the committee　will discuss about their response at the meeting.

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We wonder when “the meeting” will be held. We will update as soon as we know it.

Ngawang Sangdrol, of Garu Nunnery, was first detained in 199o and imprisoned for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. She was only 13 years old. She was released after 9 months, but arrested again in 1992. Her prison term spiked from an initial 3-years to a combined sentence of 23 years – a result of several sentence extensions within prison. She was imprisoned and tortured for 11 years and released in October 2002.

She remains an irrepressible champion of human rights and non-violence in spite of the daunting obstacles she faces.

Please read more about her: Here

This is a video message to Mr Seiichi Mizuno of the Ueno Royal Museum from her.

Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol talks about torture in prison

In June 1993, Ngawang Sangdrol and 13 other women record songs and poems of independence on an audiocassette in Drapchi Prison, which is smuggled out of the prison. In October, her sentence is extended by 6 years for the incident. This is the song.

The large Tibetan community in New York is extremely angry about the Stolen Treasure Exhibition that has been traveling around Japan! With Mr. Sonam Wandue, the chairman of the IAATE, they officially began an opposition action this weekend.

Jackson Heights in Queens is just like the main street of Dharamsala. A desk was set up on the street where the newest Bollywood music is in the air, and everyone was intensely discussing about this exhibition. It did not take a long time to collect several hundreds of opposition letters from the TIbetans who had already known about this unacceptable exhibition!

A nurse came to help after work. Some Indians were curious, thinking that she was offering a new health insurance. This Tibetan man was talking to his mother in Tibet explaining about the exhibition and our opposition action. Tibetans are passionate about their country – this opposition action has been spreading out rapidly throughout the world!

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China has been exhibiting Tibet’s artifacts throughout Japan! We must raise our voice!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: 13th July, 2009

Tokyo – Tibetans and their supporters in Japan are warning the public about “Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World,” an exhibit that is coming to Tokyo’s The Ueno Royal Museum this fall. Continue reading 'Press Release'»