SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Tokyo Office periodically receives and disseminates reports on research developments in Japan that are related to the Foundation's mission, as well as activities conducted in Japan with support from NSF. Many of these reports are prepared by NSF-sponsored researchers.

While these reports provide valuable information for use by NSF program managers and the general science and engineering communities alike, any poinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in them are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views, opinions, or policy of the National Science Foundation.

All reports from 1997 to the present are included.

• Rice university nanoJapan program:  Connecting US Undergraduates with Leading Japanese Nanotechnology Research laboratories
  NSF PIRE:  U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research and Education Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics in 6.1 Angstrom Semiconductors
  (SSR08-01.pdf: 315.0 kb) 04/17/08
  
• National Strategies to Foster Innovation in Japan: Achievements, Shortcomings and Challenges to the Science and Technology Basic Plans in Japan
  (SSR06-01.pdf: 379.0 kb) 07/27/06
  
• Gene cloning and expression in the mangrove rivulus, Rivulus marmoratus
  (SSR05-01.pdf: 1,358.0 kb) 05/31/05
  
• UCAR Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Inonosphere and Climate (COSMIC) AWARE Project Reports
  (SSR04-03.html: 5.0 kb) 12/21/04
  
• Proceedings of the Trilateral Seminar on Science, Society and the Internet
  (SSR04-02.html: 106.0 kb) 05/11/04
  
• Green Chemistry in Japan
  (SSR04-01.html: 125.0 kb) 04/6/04
  
• Technology Transfer in Japan: an Overview and a Sampling of Current Activities
  (SSR03-03.html: 54.0 kb) 07/8/03
  
• The Second Science and Technology Basic Plan: a Blueprint for Japan's Science and Technology Policy
  (SSR03-02.html: 75.0 kb) 05/19/03
  
• Accomplishments of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research in Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Initiative
  (SSR03-01.html: 1750.0 kb) 05/16/03
  
• Water-Related Chanllenges and Opportunities in the Yangtze River Delta in the Face of Regional Urbanization
  (SSR02-12.html: 13.0 kb) 11/12/02
  
• Determination of Damping Characteristics Required to Satisfy a Specified Displacement-Based Performance Level in Flexible Building Structures
  (SSR02-11.html: 323.0 kb) 10/9/02
  
• Optical Imaging of Neuronal Population Dynamics
  (SSR02-10.html: 175.0 kb) 9/30/02
  
• Use of High Strength Steel Bars as Unbonded Reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete Piers
  (SSR02-09.html: 61.0 kb) 9/25/02
  
• Lake Tai (China): A Large Lake Struggling to Survive in the Face of Regional Urbanization
  (SSR02-08.html: 15.0 kb) 9/19/02
  
• Nanotechnology in Japan
  (SSR02-07.html: 52.0 kb) 6/12/02
  
• How to Improve the Electronic Bidding and Contract System of CALS/EC (Continuous Acquisition Lifecycle Support/Electronic Commerce) for Public Work Projects
  (SSR02-06.html: 23.0 kb) 3/22/02
  
• Transport of Small Molecules in Polymeric Films and Membranes
  (SSR02-05.html: 12.0 kb) 3/15/02
  
• Actinides Conference, Hayama, Japan, November 2001
  (SSR02-04.html: 9.0 kb) 3/15/02
  
• Simulation Uncertainty in Multdisciplinary Design Optimization
  (SSR02-03.html: 12.0 kb) 3/15/02
  
• Museum Practices in Japan:  Innovations and Challenges in Collection Care and Display
  (SSR02-02.html: 24.0 kb) 1/22/02
  
• Use of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) for Investigation of Sediment-Laden Flows
  (SSR02-01.html: 16.0 kb) 1/18/02
  
• The Use of Technology in Japanese Museums
  (SSR01-11.html: 71.0 kb) 12/10/01
  
• Genome Visualization and Navigation Tools
  (SSR01-10.html: 7.0 kb) 12/10/01
  
• Investigating the Composition of the Exoskeleton of Macrobrachium Rosenbergii
  (SSR01-09.html: 16.0 kb) 12/10/01
  
• Improving Energy Efficiency in Japanese Homes
  (SSR01-08.html: 11.0 kb) 12/04/01
  
• Environmental Studies at Japan's National Institute of Public Health:  Investigations of Drinking Water and Environmental Health Concerns
  (SSR01-07.html: 28.0 kb) 12/04/01
  
• Retrofitting of Traditional Japanese Homes for Seismic Activity
  (SSR01-06.html: 8.0 kb) 11/08/01
  
• Effects of Afforestation on Carbon Storage in Soils
  (SSR01-05.html: 8.0 kb) 11/08/01
  
• The Genetic Relatedness Among Daphnia Galeata in Japan, Europe, and North America, and Possible Evolutionary Implications.
  (SSR01-04.html: 22.0 kb) 10/12/01
  
• Algebraic Cycles on Degenerating Families of Abelian Varieties.
  (SSR01-03.html: 15.0 kb) 9/05/01
  
• Electrochemical Phenomena and Catalysis Research in Japan
  (SSR01-02.html: 25.0 kb) 8/28/01
  
• Collaborative Research on the Piscine Extracellular Calcium-Sensing Receptor
  (SSR01-01.html: 24.0 kb) 7/13/01
  
• Toxicology Study of Multiple Sclerosis Lead Compounds at Eisai Tsukuba Laboratories.
  (SSR00-14.html: 15.0 kb) 11/16/00
  
• Cancer Screening Services: Comparisons Between Japan and the United States
  (SSR00-13.html: 117.0 kb) 11/16/00
  
• Gene Expression Differences Between 4 and 8 Week, Male and Female NOD Liver RNA Using RIKEN's 21K Microarray
  (SSR00-12.html: 15.0 kb) 11/16/00
  
• Input Admittance of a Wire inside a Triangular Waveguide with a Narrow Slot
  (SSR00-11.html: 12.0 kb) 10/23/00
  
• Autonomic plasticity in response to simulated microgravity
  (SSR00-10.html: 17.0 kb) 10/11/00
  
• Improvements in GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) Indicators for Visualizing Intracellular Functions in a Live Cell
  (SSR00-09.html: 24.0 kb) 10/11/00
  
• Design Process Error Management
  (SSR00-08.html: 37.0 kb) 10/11/00
  
• Comparative Studies in the Reproductive Physiology of Fresh and Salt Water Bivalves
  (SSR00-07.html: 12.0 kb) 9/1/00
  
• Salmon Olfactory Disruption from Low-Level Exposures of Organophosphate Insecticides
  (SSR00-06.html: 10.0 kb) 9/1/00
  
• Selected Civil Engineering Developments in Japan
  (SSR00-05.html: 87.0 kb) 9/1/00
  
• Characteristics of Ancient Subaqueous Volcanic Deposits
  (SSR00-04.html: 14.0 kb) 9/1/00
  
• The Design of a New Wheeled Omnidirectional Robot
  (SSR00-03.html: 24.0 kb) 9/1/00
  
• High Intensity Laser Techniques for Particle Acceleration
  (SSR00-02.html: 16.0 kb) 9/1/00
  
• Separation Process Research in Japan
  (SSR00-01.html: 26.0 kb) 8/23/00
  
• Japanese Residents' Views on Their Health Care System
  (SSR99-20.html: 20.0 kb) 12/10/99
  
• Effect of Waste on End of Product Life Cycle
  (SSR99-19.html: 13.0 kb) 11/17/99
  
• Tuberculosis in Japan: History, Trends, and Control
  (SSR99-18.html: 22.0 kb) 11/17/99
  
• Food Safety and Quality
  (SSR99-17.html: 9.0 kb) 11/10/99
  
• Studying the Implementation and Adoption of the Kyoto Protocol for Global Climage Change through the Summer Institute in Japan
  (SSR99-16.html: 8.0 kb) 10/21/99
  
• Progress Toward a General Enantioselective Heck Reaction of Vinylic Cyclopropane Enol Ethers
  (SSR99-15.html: 9.0 kb) 10/15/99
  
• Phantom Robot Bouncing Ball Project
  (SSR99-14.html: 18.0 kb) 10/01/99
  
• Characterization of a 2-D Steerable Semiconductor Laser
  (SSR99-13.html: 49.0 kb) 09/21/99
  
• Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Research
  (SSR99-12.html: 6.0 kb) 09/14/99
  
• Creating a Geographic Information System (GIS) of Shiraho Reef and Using GIS for Ground-Truthing of Remotely Sensed Data from Shiraho Reef, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa
  (SSR99-11.html: 5.0 kb) 09/14/99
  
• Welding Using Robotics: Seismic Behavior of Buildings
  (SSR99-10.html: 5.0 kb) 09/14/99
  
• Exploratory Drug Safety Assessment Research at Eisai Tsukuba Laboratories
  (SSR99-09.html: 6.0 kb) 09/14/99
  
• Deregulation of the Electricity Supply Industry in Japan: A Comparison of Cost Efficiency and Preparedness among Utility Companies
  (SSR99-08.html: 12.0 kb) 09/01/99
  
• Free Volume Properties of LLDPE/Erucamide Film studied by Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
  (SSR99-07.html: 6.0 kb) 09/01/99
  
• A Study of the Reproductive Behavior, Development, and Respiratory Physiology of the Mudskipper Fish, Periophthalmus Modestus
  (SSR99-06.html: 9.0 kb) 08/31/99
  
• Perspectives in Ecodesign
  (SSR99-05.html: 10.0 kb) 08/30/99
  
• Okazaki National Research Institutes
  (SSR99-04.html: 9.0 kb) 05/26/99
  
• Robotics and Control Related Research at Selected Universities, Industries, and Government Laboratories
  (SSR99-03.html: 20.0 kb) 05/14/99
  
• Sea Ice Dynamics
  (SSR99-02.html: 5.0 kb) 04/09/99
  
• Customization in Japan: Opportunities and Constraints
  (SSR99-01.html: 94.0 kb) 01/25/99
  
• Polymorphisms of the Intergenic Spacer of the Ribosomal RNA Gene from Various Strains of Tricholoma matsutake
  (SSR98-31.html: 6.0kb) 12/10/98
  
• Fluorescence Quenching Studies at RIKEN
  (SSR98-30.html: 12.0kb) 11/16/98
  
• Infectious Disease Control in Japan
  (SSR98-29.html: 5.0kb) 11/13/98
  
• A Systematic Study of Eastern Pacific Rim Diatoms
  (SSR98-28.html: 7.0kb) 10/17/98
  
• Industry and the Environment in Japan
  (SSR98-27.html: 8.0kb) 10/17/98
  
• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
  (SSR98-26.html: 10.0kb) 10/15/98
  
• Kanazawa Institute of Technology
  (SSR98-25.html: 17.0kb) 10/15/98
  
• US-Japan Cooperation in Ocean Sciences and Engineering
  (SSR98-24.html: 25.0kb) 10/12/98
  
• Optimal Shape and Motion from Image Sequences under Orthography
  (SSR98-23.html: 7.0kb) 10/12/98 (Revised 11/4/98)
  
• Computer Modeling of Amorphous-Silicon Crystallization Kinetics
  (SSR98-22.html: 7.0kb) 10/12/98
  
• Marine Issues in Japan
  (SSR98-21.html: 10.0kb) 10/12/98
  
• Early Warning/Detection System for Forest Fire Prevention in Indonesia
  (SSR98-20.html: 5.0kb) 10/12/98
  
• Overview of Active Structural Control Systems at Kajima Corporation
  (SSR98-19.html: 16.0kb) 10/12/98
  
• Stress-Strain Models for Confined Reinforced Concrete
  (SSR98-18.html: 5.0kb) 10/12/98
  
• Rubber Bearings: A Study in Base Isolation
  (SSR98-17.html: 11.0kb) 10/05/98
  
• Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STEL) of Nagoya University
  (SSR98-16.html: 5.0kb) 10/05/98
  
• Study on Distributed File Systems
  (SSR98-15.html: 8.0kb) 10/05/98
  
• A Survey of Ecological Physiology and Forest Biology Research in Japan
  (SSR98-14.html: 38.0kb) 09/28/98
  
• Mapping Electrical Fields with Sub-Micron Resolutions and Nonlinear Optical Polymers
  (SSR98-13.html: 7.0kb) 09/28/98
  
• US-Japan Cooperative Research in Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation - Initiation, Coordination, and Implementation.
  (SSR98-12.html: 22.0kb) 09/12/98
  
• The Japan-USA-Vietnam Workshop on Research and Education in Systems, Computation, and Control Engineering, May, 1998.
  (SSR98-11.html: 9.0kb) 06/16/98
  
• Dexterous Manipulation and Haptic Exploration of Unknown Objects
  (SSR98-10.html: 11.0kb) 06/03/98
  
• University-Industry Cooperation for Technology Innovation in Japan
  (SSR98-09.html: 47.0kb) 04/21/98
  
• Report on Ocean Wave Energy Conversion Projects
  (SSR98-08.html: 14.0kb) 04/09/98
  
• Science in the Cold War: The Legacy of the International Geophysical Year
  (SSR98-07.html: 22.0kb) 04/07/98
  
• The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science: An Overview
  (SSR98-06.html: 7.0kb) 02/06/98
  
• TARA and Nara: Two Innovations in the Organization of University Research in Japan
  (SSR98-05.html: 15.0kb) 02/06/98
  
• The Science System in Japan
  (SSR98-04.html: 27.0kb) 01/27/98
  
• Fine Control of Actively Stabilized Antennas
  (SSR98-03.html: 8.7kb) 01/09/98
  
• Force Control and Contour Following of Constrained Robotic Systems
  (SSR98-02.html: 8.7kb) 01/09/98
  
• Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials in Japan
  (SSR98-01.html: 11.9kb) 01/09/98
  
• SPring-8: a New Third-Generation Synchrotron Light Source
  (SSR97-40.html: 19.0kb) 12/04/97
  
• Control and Robotics Related Research Activities
  (SSR97-39.html: 28.0kb) 11/19/97
  
• Victoria Land Coast Expedition
  (SSR97-38.html: 11.0kb) 11/19/97
  
• A Survey of Laboratories Involved in Plant Biochemistry Research in Japan
  (SSR97-37.html: 13.0kb) 11/04/97
  
• A Survey of Laboratories Involved in Basic Biological Research in Japan
  (SSR97-36.html: 29.0kb) 11/04/97
  
• Database Selection and Display in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  (SSR97-35.html: 4.0kb) 10/10/97
  
• The Beginnings of a Case Study of Japanese Science Teacher Education
  (SSR97-34.html: 8.0kb) 09/26/97
  
• Methodologies and Challenges in the Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation of Quality of Life Questionnaires
  (SSR97-33.html: 6.0kb) 09/26/97
  
• Comparative Studies in Landscape Ecology on Vicarious Taxa of Japan and Eastern North America
  (SSR97-32.html: 23.0kb) 09/26/97
  
• The Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics at the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
  (SSR97-31.html: 7.0kb) 09/12/97
  
• The Department of Bioengineering at the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
  (SSR97-30.html: 8.0kb) 09/12/97
  
• The Transformation of Traditional Folkcrafts: The Woodcarvers of Inami-cho
  (SSR97-29.html: 9.0kb) 09/05/97
  
• Measurement of Lateral Forces on a Sheet-pile Wall during Seismic Loading
  (SSR97-28.html: 6.0kb) 09/05/97
  
• Yamafuji Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications
  (SSR97-27.html: 4.0kb) 09/05/97
  
• Modeling of Microporosity Evolution during Solidification Processes
  (SSR97-26.html: 5.0kb) 09/05/97
  
• Seismo-electromagnetic Research in the Earthquake Remote Sensing Frontier Research Project, EORC/NASDA: An Overview
  (SSR97-25.html: 11.0kb) 09/02/97
  
• Scanning Tunneling Microscope Studies of GaN Surface Reconstructions
  (SSR97-24.html: 5.0kb) 08/20/97
  
• Visit to Marine Biotechnology Institute (MBI) at Kamaishi
  (SSR97-23.html: 7.0kb) 07/28/97
  
• Visit to the Department of Biotechnology at Osaka University
  (SSR97-22.html: 10.0kb) 07/28/97
  
• Structural Biology Research Community in Japan
  (SSR97-21.html: 16.0kb) 07/22/97
  
• US-Japan Seminar: Pesticides and the Future - Minimizing Chronic Exposure of Humans and the Environment
  (SSR97-20.html: 9.0kb) 06/23/97
  
• The Prospects for Long-Term Ecological Research in East Asia
  (SSR97-19.html: 7.0kb) 06/11/97
  
• Household Saving in Japan
  (SSR97-18.html: 11.0kb) 06/03/97
  
• Report on activities of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council (AFFRC) Secretariat, an agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)
  (SSR97-17.html: 17.0kb) 05/29/97
  
• US-Japan Seminar: Classification of Algebraic Varieties
  (SSR97-16.html: 8.0kb) 05/20/97
  
• Numerical Modeling and Rheological Properties of the Transition Zone
  (SSR97-15.html: 3.0kb) 05/09/97
  
• Exploring Electron Beam Assisted ALE and P-Type Conductivity Control of III-V Nitrides
  (SSR97-14.html: 2.7kb) 05/12/97
  
• US-Japan Workshop on Nanoparticle Synthesis and Applications
  (SSR97-13.html: 4.3kb) 05/12/97
  
• Report on a Visit to Aomori Green Biocenter
  (SSR97-12.html: 9.3kb) 05/06/97
  
• Research Report: Type Specimens in Japanese Fish Collections
  (SSR97-11.html: 10.4kb) 05/06/97
  
• An Overview of Hazard and Disaster Research in Japan
  (SSR97-10.html: 12.6kb) 04/18/97
  
• The Ecological Roles of Soft-Bodied Zooplankton: Bottom Up and Top Down Feeding
  (SSR97-09.html: 15.5kb) 04/16/97
  
• An Overview of Engineering Education in Japan
  (SSR97-08.html: 14.8kb) 04/16/97
  
• The Prospects for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science, Technology and Society in Japan
  (SSR97-07.html: 14.0kb) 04/16/97
  
• The 5th Japan Science and Technology Corporation International Symposium: New Frontiers in Microbiology, held on January 30-31, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan
  (SSR97-06.html: 10.0kb) 02/28/97
  
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Swollen Polymer Networks
  (SSR97-05.html: 12.0kb) 02/19/97
  
• Visit to Kazusa DNA Research Intitute
  (SSR97-04.html: 8.0kb) 02/12/97
  
• VLSI Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Systems
  (SSR97-03.html: 6.0kb) 02/07/97
  
• Equivalence of Quantum Field Theories
  (SSR97-02.html: 4.4kb) 01/07/97
  
• Electromigration Studies and the NEC Tsukuba Research Laboratory
  (SSR97-01.html: 6.5kb) 01/06/97