The
Angkor monument was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage
List in 1992. At the same time, it was also inscribed on
the World Heritage in Danger List. To safeguard the monuments
from further damage, the Japanese government formed the
Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor (JSA) in
1994, and launched a project funded by the UNESCO/Japan
Trust Fund for the Preservation of World Cultural Heritage.
A total of more than 700 Japanese experts from various fields
have been dispatched to Cambodia, to engage in conservation
and restoration activities with Cambodian workers, who consistently
formed a group of about 70 members. Through its conservation
and restoration project, JSA is striving to transfer Japanese
technologies and develop human resources in Cambodia, with
the ultimate hope that, in the future, the Cambodian people
themselves will be able to carry out monument safeguarding
activities on their own.
The third phase of the project began in 2005 under the joint
framework called JAPAN-APSARA Safeguarding Angkor (JASA),
in cooperation with the Authority for the Protection and
Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap (APSARA),
and mainly aims to gradually transfer the helm of activities
to Cambodia.
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