2014-9-19 Conservation work on local documents damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake completed

The National Diet Library (NDL) completed the conservation work on old local documents of the 17th-19th century held by the Rikuzentakata City Library in Iwate prefecture, damaged by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The NDL's Preservation Division has conducted several treatments on over 70,000 pages since October 2012. The documents have been sent back to the Iwate Prefectural Museum in Morioka City.