National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo agrees to buy the painting, Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather

A three-way battle is brewing in New York courts as the heirs of two Holocaust victims take on the work’s current owner

Gari Melchers's painting of a winter landscape, which was in the Arkell Museum in the state of New York, belonged to the media mogul Rudolf Mosse

But return of the objects permanently to Namibia is not the immediate goal, says Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Discussion argued for community empowerment, new skillsets, and focus on contemporary colonialism

While the president is the first to allow Title III of Helms-Burton Act to be used, some whose collections were taken doubt it will have an impact

Move reignites debate over British Museum’s position on sculptures brought to Britain by Lord Elgin

For first time, advisory team stipulates that work must not be sold for ten years in case evidence emerges that contradicts its ruling

Spokeswoman for the London museum says it has not been officially approached by the country over the return of the two objects made by the Taíno people in its collection

Pioneering agreement to share contested work from Gurlitt trove provides a roadmap for similar legal cases

France’s president pledged to return 26 items seized in the 19th century by the French military

An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War

Suggestions from controversial Savoy-Sarr report were all-but buried at a conference held in Paris

The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director

The case 'shouldn't be heard in a US court', argues the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Study reveals that up to 8% of museum acquisitions were looted from private citizens

Case of Ethiopian tabots shows that trustees' hands are not tied when it comes to the disposal of certain items from the collection

Serious roadblocks remain for claimants looking to reclaim works looted by Nazis

Restitutions Committee recommends return of two Golden Age works to heirs of Jacob Lierens

Country has requested return of 11 tabots held in sealed storeroom that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes should only be viewed by its priests

The judge says the work should have raised suspicions, but that he must apply Spanish law

Official argues that its return could help boost tourism in an area that has suffered economically from earthquake damage

Sotheby's assisted the return of the books, including 11 medieval manuscripts, which were found in Belgium

Thousands of illegally removed items—including human bones—were discovered on collector’s farm

Australia is pursuing further repatriations from Germany, ambassador says

In the second part of a new series, Adrian Ellis examines the issue of post-colonial restitution

Painting acquired for Oslo's National Gallery was bought at auction from heirs of Jewish dealer persecuted by the Nazis

Questions are being raised about how the work ended up in the US and why such a public seizure is being pursued now

German advisory commission on Nazi-looted art says paintings in government collection should be restituted to the descendants of Max James Emden

During president Xi Jinping's visit to Rome, Italy announced that it will return 796 artefacts to China