Japanese Government Budget for Materials R and D

摘要

Given the significant investments that the Government of Japan is making inmaterials research, and the potential for increased U.S.-Japan collaboration, an attempt was made to identify major Japanese government program in this area. An attempt has been made to collect pertinent data from various ministries and agencies, in particular the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho), MITI's Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the Science and Technolgy Agency (STA). When combined, these three agencies (Monbusho, MITI and STA) account for about 83% of the total government S&T budget for this year. The budget data presented below for the three agencies are considered to represent a major proportion, if not most, of the government budget for materials research in FY 1997.