We are attempting to have foreign media cover the fact that Japanese museums are being destroyed one after another.

List of museums planned for demolition in Japan as of 2023 that are facing opposition or lawsuits.
Meguro Museum of ArtTokyo, Nerima Art Museum, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Shiko Munakata Memorial Museum, Aomori, Japan

２０２３年現在日本国内で取り壊しが計画されていて反対運動や訴訟が起こされている美術館のリスト
目黒区美術館、練馬区美術館、町田市立国際版画美術館、棟方志功記念館青森県

もし皆さんに海外の友人、日本国内の外国人の友人がいたら是非とも英文のお知らせをシェアして下さい。報道メディア関係の方ではなくても構いません。先日のジャニーズ問題の様にこの問題も海外からの批判や疑問の声が高まれば今後の再開発の流れが変わっていくきっかけになるかもしれません。

If you have overseas friends or foreign friends in Japan, please share the English announcement with them. You do not have to be a member of the news media.
Like the recent issue with Johnny's, if criticism and questions about this issue are raised from abroad, it may lead to a change in the trend of redevelopment in the future.

https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/articles/-/meguro-museum-demolition-news-202302

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYbIw8P8zjs

Meguro Museum of Art demolished due to redevelopment plans
Citizens to sign petition against the demolition, saying it would set a 'bad precedent'.

Is this the way it's going to stay? If you're a resident of Meguro, you've been there at least once.
Have you been there at least once? Meguro Kumin Centre today

The Meguro Kumin Centre and the Meguro Museum of Art are located in a beautiful area surrounded by the Meguro River, Meguro Street and Yamanote Street, and have long been loved by the residents of the ward. Did you know that plans are afoot to demolish these facilities and the nearby Shimo-Meguro Elementary School in 2028, and to build a high-rise, multi-functional building and outsource the work to the private sector?

The "wait and see" voice of the people of the district
Signature drives and petitions have been held to oppose this development plan going ahead as it is.

The points being raised are:.

- The ward is trying to make the building taller than the regulation height of 20 metres, even if it changes the bylaws.

- The western end of the site, up to the Meguro Museum of Art, is to be demolished and the land cleared to increase the area of the site - part of the land is to be given to a builder on a 70-year fixed-term leasehold.

- The plan is to build a 70-metre high-rise condominium, etc.
The plan is to demolish the museum and clear the land to increase the site area, and to give the contractor a 70-year fixed-term lease on part of the land.

The National Museum of Modern Art in Takebashi, for example, was built over 70 years ago, but has been repaired and is still in good working order.

As a cultural asset and a building of such value that it has won national architectural awards, there is opposition to its demolition not only in the ward, but also in Japan and abroad. The Japan Institute of Architects has submitted a proposal to the ward mayor.

*Major international media and journalists I have contacted
BBC, NYTimes, HuffPost, Artforum, Sophie Richard

Contact replies include those I have not yet received

Masato NAGAI  
206Uls Meguro Yutenji2-33-9 Meguroku Nakacho Tokyo Japan