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From 1979, key members of JPS and others from the photographic community started to lobby for the establishment of photography museums and public collections in Japan. Their efforts bore fruit by the mid-1990s with the establishment of photography departments at public museums, such as the Kawasaki City Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art and Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art. The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan’s first public museum dedicated to photography, was also built.