Japanese scholar Muramatsu Teijiro noted at a conference sponsored by the Council for Cultural Planning and Development that accelerated post-war modernization in Japan brought destruction to some, old buildings and traditional streets, but since the 1960s, when the preservation movement took off in Japan, protection of cultural assets began to quicken.
日本學者村松貞次郎曾經在文建會主辦的研討會中指出，日本在二次大戰後加速現代化，使得一些老舊建築物、和傳統街道遭到破壞，但是在一九六○年代後，當推動保存的市民運動高漲時，也開始加快保存文化財的腳步。