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Japan will promote R&D activities that concur with policy priorities in resolving national and social issues, such as the enhancement of international competitiveness, or countermeasures against e nvironmental problems or aging and the low-birth-rate society, in order to pursue the establishment a nd maintenance of an affluent, comfortable, and safe society.
Japan will also deal with newly emerging S&T fields that are expected to be developed rapidly i n the future, with appropriate foresight and maneuverability.
At the same time, Japan will secure proper resources to promote of basic research. Because discover ies in R&D might bring breakthroughs, and basic research and industrial applications have been ra pidly drawing closer together.
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