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With the increasing degree and broadening scope of interest in the area of culture on the part of today's public, a great desire has arisen for a systematic means of obtaining information about culture.

Since 1989, the Agency for Cultural Affairs has, in cooperation primarily with the National Museums and the National Research Institutes of Cultural Properties, been studying the possibility of creating a nationwide cultural property information system through the formation of a network that would connect museums and other facilities, so as to meet various

administrative and scientific demands, as well as to satisfy the broad learning needs of the general public.

The National Museums and the National Research Institutes of Cultural Properties, which are to become national centers, are compiling data bases which contain information about cultural properties. As a preliminary step, data from national museums and local buried cultural property centers are being converted into a common format.