If the museum does decide to repatriate the object, it will be as a sign of good will, according to Tim Schadla-Hall, a Reader in Public Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.
Markets took her comments as a sign that the US will not publicly object to the new Japanese government's aggressive push for easier monetary policy, during which some officials have made explicit references to the yen.