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This report is an annual report about policy measures implemented for promotion of science and technology under the obligation of the Science and Technology Basic Law (Legislation No. 130, 1995) Article 8.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this report, trends of broad and wide-ranging activities about science and technology are described for the help to understand Part 3, the policy measures implemented for the promotion of science and technology.

In Part 1, under the title "Towards the 21st Century," in addition to looking back at the development of mankind in the 20th century and of science and technology, a description for the new relationship between society and science and technology in the new century is presented. In Part 2 various data are used to compare scientific and technological activities in Japan with those in other principal nations.