Bringing friends from afar Taiwan has already invited members of the Japanese media with an interest in World Heritage Sites to Taiwan to visit and photograph Taiwan's potential sites, and invited scholars and residents from Shirakawa Village, a Japanese World Heritage Site, to Taiwan to share their experience in getting listed and discuss problems that that listing has created.
有朋自遠方來目前已經進行的包括：邀請日本等關心世界遺產的媒體，前來採訪拍攝台灣的世界遺產潛力點。邀請日本世界遺產的白川市的學者及民眾，前來分享他們的經驗及登錄之後引發的問題。