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Hajimari Art Center is a small museum that was established in June 2014 by renovating a 140-year-old sake brewery “Juhachikengura”. Asaka Aiikuen, the parent organization of Hajimari Art Center, has implemented support programs mainly for persons with intellectual disabilities for about 50 years since its foundation. Such activities brought attention to all important forms of self-expression and self-realization regardless of whether the persons have a disability or not. Hajimari Art Center is a place where welfare and art exist together, and it provides opportunities to develop a tolerant and creative society.

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