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PART II Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 6. Promoting Scientific Research
Section 6. Prioritized Promotion of Basic Research
9. Promoting Antarctic Research Programs


Japan's Antarctic research programs are implemented primarily by the National Institute of Polar Research with the cooperation of relevant government ministries and agencies. The Headquarters for the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition has been established within the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture under the leadership of the Minister of Education, Science and Culture. Activities in the Antarctic are carried out under the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty. In April 1994 the treaty signatory nations met for the eighteenth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, which was held in Japan (Kyoto) for the first time in 23 years. The agenda included future policies.

Japan sent its first expedition to the Antarctic in 1956. Since then its research achievements have included elucidation of the mechanisms that produce auroras and the discovery of Antarctic meteorites. In fiscal 1994 the thirty-fifth expedition carried out regular observations of oceanic and atmospheric phenomena and the ionosphere in the area around Showa Base. In addition, the team conducted the Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome Fuji in an effort to explain global climate changes and environmental fluctuations and engaged in the Antarctic Atmospheric Chemistry Project. The thirty-sixth expedition left Japan in November 1994 on the Antarctic exploration ship Shirase.


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