article_snippet: The Japanese artefacts – a wooden plaque and replica school textbook – went missing from the Kaetsu Educational and Cultural Centre last Saturday as it hosted a Japan Day celebration.
article_snippet: The replicas were loaned to the university from a museum in Japan, marking the first time The replicas had ever been taken out of Japan.
article_snippet: University officials said the textbook is a replica of those used in Japanese schools during World War II.
article_snippet: the artefacts for souvenirs were taken by a tourist during a Japan Day celebration at Cambridge University .
article_snippet: the artefacts for souvenirs are now being returned to the Peace Memorial Museum in Okinawa.
article_snippet: Peter Roberts-Taira, the education centre's director, said Peter Roberts-Taira, the education centre's director was relieved when Peter Roberts-Taira, the education centre's director found out that the artefacts for souvenirs had been recovered.
article_snippet: , the education centre's director said: ‘It's the first time these items have ever been out of Japan, so the museums themselves were taking a risk.
article_snippet: One was a wooden plaque with some Japanese on it, the other was a maths book which children had in children classrooms.
highlights_snippet: Artefacts were on display at the Kaetsu Educational and Cultural Centre .
  
highlights_snippet: Staff were loaned to the university by Okinawa's Peace Memorial Museum .
  