Big gains for biology and IT in Japanese science budget
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The Japanese Cabinet has approved the budget for the year beginning on Apr 1, 2000. This budget contains significant increases in funding for information technology and the life sciences. This has been widely welcomed, even though the overall rise in the Science and Technology Agency's budget is only 0.8%. There will be an increase of almost 50% in investment in genome research, and Y61 billion will go to a planned national centre for regenerative medicine.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Japanese technology fund faces ministry criticism
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The activities of the Japan Key Technology Centre (Japan Key-TEC) are to be investigated by the Japanese government following public criticism of the organization's effectiveness. Japan Key-TEC, which provides finance for over 60 semi-private academic research institutes, has spent a total of $1.78 billion since its inauguration in 1985. The Ministry of Trade and Industry oversees the group's activities, but the Ministry of Finance is said to be worried that little return has been seen from the investments. Despite this, the government has approved an 11.7% increase in spending on science and technology in 1997.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Japanese budget boosts science funding
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Japan's budget is aimed at improving its ailing economy through increased public spending, and includes an 8.1% increased in spending on science, with a strong focus on basic research. The Science and Technology Agency's (STA) budget has increased y 4.1% and investment on space development will rise by 2.6%. STA will also receive a further 2.7 billion yen to produce the lunar probe SELENE. The Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment will be awarded 1 billion yen and the KEK high-energy accelerator will receive 8.5 billion yen.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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