PART Issues and Developments of Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 5. Promotion of Scientific Research
6. Promoting Important Areas of Basic Research
Research fields with grave scientific significance and strong
social demands, such as accelerator science, space science, nuclear fusion research,
life sciences including cancer research, earth and environmental science, are
given preferential consideration. These researches have been promoted mainly
in the inter-university research institutes, special attention being paid to
world development in research and the situation of research in Japan. Positive
provision of grants-in-aid for scientific research has also been made for the
promotion of such researches.
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