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PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture

It has become an important task to develop, in various fields, excellent young researchers who are full of creativity, so that Japan's scientific research activities may further develop in response to the demand for large-scale and more advanced research projects, as well as the demand for the promotion of such creative and pioneer research activities as may contribute to the progress of scientific research in the world.

For this reason, the Ministry has been endeavoring to improve and enrich educational research activities at graduate schools. It has also beech striving to help develop 'young researchers by strengthening fellowship programs administered by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, including fellowships for young Japanese researchers (approximately 1.000 fellowships were granted in 1990), post-doctoral fellowships for research abroad, and fellowships for foreign researchers.

In July 1990 the Science Council, an advisory body to the Minister of Education, Science and Culture, submitted to the Minister a report in which it recommended that the fellowship program for young Japanese researchers be improved.