NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
TOKYO REGIONAL OFFICE
May 16, 2003
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Report Memorandum #03-04
JFY2003 S&T-related Budgets by Field
The following report was prepared by Ms. Kazuko Shinohara of the National Science Foundation’s Tokyo Regional Office. She can be reached at kshinoha@nsf.gov.
On March 28, 2003 MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) released S&T-related budgets for JFY2003 by field.
The total S&T-related budgets for JFY2003 are Yen 3,591.6 billion (ca. $29.93 billion), an increase by Yen 47.2 billion (ca. $393 million) from the previous year. Major projects by field are shown in Table I below, followed by the budgets for Japan's four identified "priority" areas in Table II.
Table I. JFY2003 Budgets for Major Projects by Field
|
Research Field and Major Project |
Responsible Agency |
JFY2003 Budget (Billion Yen) |
JFY2002 Budget (Billion Yen) |
|
I. Life Science |
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Protein 3000 |
MEXT |
9.5 |
11.8 |
|
National Bio-Resource Project |
MEXT |
4.0 |
4.4 |
|
Tailor-made Medicare Project |
MEXT |
2.2 |
NEW |
|
Disease-related Protein Analysis Project |
MHLW |
4.0 |
NEW |
|
Rice/Animal Genome Research |
MAFF |
3.4 |
5.9 |
|
Glycoengineering Project |
METI |
1.0 |
NEW |
|
II. Information/Communication |
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Ubiquitous Network |
MPMHAPT |
2.5 |
NEW |
|
Software for E-society |
MEXT |
1.2 |
NEW |
|
Strategic Information/Communication R&D |
MPMHAPT |
2.5 |
1.5 |
|
National Grid Computing Network Project |
MEXT |
2.0 |
NEW |
|
Business Grid Computing Project |
METI |
2.7 |
NEW |
|
III. Environment |
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Global Environment Research |
ME |
3.0 |
2.9 |
|
National Institute of Environmental Science |
ME |
9.8 |
9.8 |
|
Human-Nature-Earth Symbiosis Project |
MEXT |
3.7 |
3.9 |
|
Comprehensive Processing/Recycling of Industrial Waste/Biomass |
MEXT |
0.5 |
NEW |
|
Comprehensive Management of Harmful Chemical Substance in Agricultural/Fishery/Forestry Ecosystem |
MAFF |
0.4 |
NEW |
|
IV. Nanotechnology/Materials |
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National Institute of Materials Science |
MEXT |
16.5 |
16.7 |
|
Device Based on New Theory Using Nanotechnology |
MEXT |
0.4 |
NEW |
|
Artificial Internal/Sensory Organs Using Nanotechnology |
MEXT |
0.2 |
NEW |
|
Nano-material Processing Technologies |
METI |
1.8+Operation cost |
1.7 |
|
V. Energy |
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High-speed Proliferation Reactor "Monju" |
MEXT |
12.2 |
12.0 |
|
R&D on Advanced Radioactive Waste Disposal |
MEXT |
8.1 |
7.7 |
|
R&D on Fuel Cell |
METI |
2.1-Operation Cost |
3.3 |
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VI. Manufacturing Technologies |
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Strengthening of Strategic Basic Technologies |
METI |
3.2 |
NEW |
|
VII. Social Infrastructure |
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Defense Agency Technology Research HQ |
DA |
160.2 |
142.5 |
|
National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan |
NPSC |
2.5 |
2.2 |
|
Advanced Immediate Earthquake Information Transmitting Network Project |
MEXT |
0.2 |
NEW |
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Advanced Precision Three-dimensional Measurement, Advanced Datum Point Measurement, Electronic Datum point Measurement |
MLIT |
1.6 |
1.4 |
|
VIII. Frontier Fields |
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Quasi-Zenith Satellite System |
MLIT |
0.2 |
NEW |
|
H-IIA Rocket |
MEXT |
5.1+Operation Cost |
7.1 |
|
IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Project) |
MEXT |
8.2 |
7.1 |
Acronyms used
MEXT:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and TechnologyTable II. JFY2003 Budgets for Major Four Fields
|
Four Major Fields |
JFY2003 Total Budget (Billion Yen) |
JFY2002 Total Budget (Billion Yen) |
|
Life Science |
431.6 |
417.3 |
|
Information Science |
277.1 |
262.3 |
|
Environment |
720.1 |
758.4 |
|
Nanotechnology/Materials |
149.1 |
135.2 |
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