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	Keio SFC - Research Grant by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)　to Private ...
		The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) provides financial assistance and infrastructure support to private universities conducting research under a scheme entitled "Promotional Project for Advancement of Academic Researches at Private Universities".
		For further details please refer to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology website (available in Japanese).
		The project aims to understand the emergence of a new social order in Japan that takes into account falling birthrate and increase in longevity by utilizing the techniques of advanced fundamental technologies such as nursing science, medical care welfare, engineering, information communication technologies et cetra.
	www.sfc.keio.ac.jp /visitors/kri/mext.html.en (528 words)

	Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ministry is led by a minister, who is a member of the Cabinet and is chosen by the Prime Minister, typically from the members of the Diet.
		Japanese government centralizes education and it is managed by a state bureaucracy that regulates almost every aspect of the educational process.
		Another important aspect of Japanese education is that while the Ministry of Education has no direct control over nursery-schools, there is still a very strong indirect influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ministry_of_Education,_Culture,_Sports,_Science_and_Technology (442 words)

	QJER 19, 2003: Oyanagi - building schools based on community needs - educational reforms at Nara Prefecture in Japan
		That is, the approach in this district by the school and the local education authority is significant to the point of having exceeded the expectations - and evaded the restrictions - of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
		The artist, the scholar, the doctor, the counsellor, the cook, the dietician, the environmental education instructor, the outdoors practice instructor and the teacher at the school, for example, are included as centre members of this NPO (Ohzora, oozoratoha; retrieved February 9, 2004, from http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~ohzora/oozoratoha.htm).
		To open the possibility of educational reform in these rural areas, it is important for the local education authority, the school and the local people to reflect from multiple perspectives on the kinds of problems that exist in the reform of the district.
	www.iier.org.au /qjer/qjer19/oyanagi.html (5055 words)

	Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
		The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) was created through a merger between the Former Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (MOE) and the Science and Technology Agency (STA).
		MEXT is responsible for the administration of nuclear energy for science and technology.
		The MEXT is responsible for the planning and administration of nuclear energy for science and technology.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/japan/mext.htm (386 words)

	Untitled Document
		Japan progressed from the catch-up era to the self-created stage in science and technology as well as in the economic field.
		Japan should use its experience to devise strategies by which the various peoples of the world can thoroughly enjoy the benefits of modern science and technology while maintaining their own cultures and values.
		Bearing in mind the concept of "science in society and science for society," forms of interactive communication between science and technology and society must be established.
	www.iubs.org /test/bioint/43/5.htm (2983 words)

	Japan’s 2004 Space Budget Flat
		Japan’s general space budget is allotted to six government ministries plus the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, which manages the nation’s national security satellite program.
		On Oct. 1, the former National Space Development Agency of Japan, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and the National Aerospace Laboratory merged to form the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
		Japan’s space budget, along with the national budget was confirmed Dec. 20 after a meeting of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s cabinet.
	www.space.com /spacenews/archive04/budgetarch_012004.html (338 words)

	Anna Nagamine, Internationalization in Okinawan Universities
		According to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (2002a), the number of foreign students in Japan has reached approximately ninety-five thousand in May 2002, a remarkable increase of twenty-one percent in comparison to last year (10).
		Gallagher had been in Japan for a long time and was married to a Japanese man, she is unable to teach foreign culture as found in foreign countries (A46).
		Kitagawa notes that when universities were first established in Japan, the former Ministry of Education and university authorities paid high salaries to foreign faculty members in order to exclude them from the governance of universities (35).
	themargins.net /fps/student/nagamine.html (2848 words)

	United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
		Japan is pursuing an advanced and comprehensive space programme encompassing a wide range of fields related to space science, technology and application.
		The private sector in Japan is extensively involved in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of various types of equipment, systems, instruments, components and materials used for space activities.
		Japan became the third country to send a lander to Mars with the launch of a probe in July 1998 and is one of the major players in the International Space Station.
	www.unescap.org /icstd/space/resap/members/japan.asp (297 words)

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		Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
		Secretary to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
		Secretary to the Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
	www.unesco.org /confgen/participants/lists/japon.html (101 words)

	The RM: Book_Review
		Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho, 1998) revised the national curriculum guidelines for public junior high school English, which took effect in April, 2002.
		In Japan, at the primary school level, little more than 50 percent of the public elementary schools teach English as part of “The Period of Integrated Study,” and about 65 percent of them provide less than 11 instructional hours in grade 3 and above per year (Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Technology, 2003).
		Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2003) revealed only about 10 percent of public junior high schools surveyed adopt small-group teaching according to proficiency level in required English courses.
	www.readingmatrix.com /commentaries/toshy/commentaries.html (1400 words)

	Department of Education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
		United States United States Department of Education and United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
		Many U.S. states also have their own Departments of Education to complement the department at the national level.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Department_of_Education (149 words)

	SMART in the News- Japan Brings Tech to Classrooms
		Training is a big challenge: The ministry reported in 1999 that 75 percent of public school teachers in Japan were incapable of incorporating computers in their classes – and 40 percent didn’t even know how to use one.
		Japan has a rapidly aging population and a dwindling youth demographic, making issues pertaining to senior welfare one of the biggest challenges the nation will face in coming years.
		Japan, which has about half the population of the United States in a nation comparable in size to California, has about half a million classrooms, so dropping Internet connectivity and high-tech tools into each room is a project that’s going to take time and money.
	www.smarttech.com /company/aboutus/coverage/japan.asp (1489 words)

	About the JET Programme
		Participants are invited to Japan as representatives of their countries, and are therefore expected to demonstrate a sense of responsibility in all their activities, including the promotion of mutual understanding between nations.
		Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Receives placement requests from the local authorities; determines participant numbers per prefecture; provides main revenue for the Programme to the local authorities.
		Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Embassies and Consulates oversee the application and selection processes; pre-departure orientations; and assistance to the alumni activities.
	www.mofa.go.jp /j_info/visit/jet/outline.html (515 words)

	Japan plans super supercomputer - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
		Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene, an official of the ministry said on condition of anonymity.
		Japan's Earth Simulator supercomputer, introduced in 2002, had been the world's fastest until 2004, when the IBM's Blue Gene took the title, he said.
		The ministry wants to use the planned supercomputer for a wider use such as simulating the formation of galaxy and the interactions between a medicine and the human body.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8699180/print/1/displaymode/1098 (315 words)

	Government-sponsored
		Applicants must be enrolled as undergraduate students in faculties or schools which major in Japanese language or Japanese culture in a university outside Japan at the time when they come to Japan and must be enrolled in the home institution at the time when they return to their home countries.
		Students majoring in the fields other than Japanese language or Japanese culture who wish to study various aspects of Japan(engineering, economy, agriculture, architecture, art, etc.)as part of their major studies should apply to the AIEJ for admission to the Short-term Student Exchange Promotion Program.
		You must be at least 17 and under 22 years of age and have completed school education comparable to a high school (a minimum of 11 years beginning in primary school) education (includes prospective graduates).
	www.studyjapan.go.jp /en/toj/toj0302e.html (1079 words)

	Ethical Guidelines for Analytical Research on the Human Genome/Genes (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have now established general ethical guidelines for analytical research on the human genome/genes, which are entitled "Ethical Guidelines for Analytical Research on the Human Genome/Genes".
		Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have now established gEthical Guidelines for Analytical Research on the Human Genome/Genesh as ethical guidelines to be applied to general analytical researches on the human genome/genes.
		Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (the former Ministry of Education)
	www2.unescobkk.org /eubios/eghgr.htm (11147 words)

	Learning Technology Country Page - Japan
		Context: Japan was surprisingly slow in implementing educational technologies into the K-12 system in the 1990s, but the country is aggressively changing course.
		For example the "Regional Model Project for Advanced Educational - Networking" is planning to join 1076 school in 30 districts via the latest high-speed telecommunications network.
		NIME is one of three agencies supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to conduct educational technology research and development.
	www.fas.org /learn/intl_rev/japan.htm (202 words)

	SGI News January 22, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ikeda discussed the state of university education in the U.S. and the April 2004 opening of Soka University's law school on the Hachioji campus, among the first 66 law schools following the U.S. model, formally instituted in Japan under guidelines set by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
		Stating his view that education was the source of the rise and fall of civilization, Mr.
		On January 21, Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology sponsored a forum on its 2003 "Support Program for Distinctive University Education" (tentative translation) at the Senri Life Science Center in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture.
	www.sgi.org /english/News/nb/0401/nb040122.htm (999 words)

	International Higher Education--26/14
		Private universities in Japan, already under considerable pressure in recent years because of the continuing economic slump and the rapid decline in the eighteen-year-old population, are now facing a new headache.
		The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced in June of this year that it is revising its method of allotting financial aid to private universities.
		Now the ministry is saying that it wants to concentrate on raising the level of Japan's “Top 30” universities so that they can compete with the best universities around the world.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/News26/text014.htm (906 words)

	Japan Focus Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Japan’s post-war symbolic emperor system that continues to this day was created by a fraud identical in nature to that which inspired the ‘Emperor column’ of the ‘Tsukurukai’ history book.
		It was not only the atomic bombings that could have been avoided had Japan acted swiftly to accept the Potsdam Declaration, but also personal losses and suffering, including the detentions of Japanese citizens in Siberia as a result of the last-minute Soviet participation in the war against Japan.
		Thus, the Constitution of Japan, symbol and fount of Japan’s post-war democracy, was stained from its inception by the emperor system and the consequent politics of national symbolism.
	japanfocus.org /article.asp?id=093 (4822 words)

	Japan aims for world's fastest computer by 2010 - ZDNet UK News
		The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology expects to complete the system by 2010, when it will run at a maximum speed of 10 petaflops — 10 quadrillion floating-point operations a second.
		The Ministry estimates that the project will cost up to ¥100bn (£500m), and says that the machine will be used for research into drugs, weather systems and cosmology.
		Japan hosted the world's fastest computer, the 36 teraflop Earth Simulator, for two-and-a-half years until last September when it was overtaken by Blue Gene/L's first incarnation.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39210640,00.htm (376 words)

	Japan 2004
		In Japan, September 12th is "Space Day." On this day in 1992 the astronaut Mamoru Mohri became the first Japanese in space aboard the Space Shuttle, and we have had the 12th Space Day this year.
		The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT); Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA); etc. promote an Essay and Drawing Contest for elementary and middle school students and other space-related events, where children can enjoy and learn about space and space development.
		For the Essay and Drawing Contest, 16,081 essays and drawings were sent by children from all over Japan, and its awarding ceremony was held at "JAPAN AEROSPACE 2004 " on October 10.
	www.spaceweek.org /japan_2004.html (175 words)

	Glossary: define MEXT Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
		Glossary: define MEXT Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
		You can be anywhere on earth and still communicate with people from all over the world.
		MEXT - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: MEXT is the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a Japanese government organization.
	www.teaching-english-in-japan.net /acronyms/mext (52 words)

	Technology Foresight Pakistan -- Worldwide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, The Seventh Technology Foresight, Future Technology in Japan toward the Year 2030, July 2001
		National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, Japan's Priority Science and Technology Fields
		Science and Technology Foresight Center of NISTEP, Science and Technology Trends
	www.un.org.pk /unido/foresight/japan.htm (110 words)

	Written statement submitted by the International Movement Against
		On March 28, 2003, the Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Education Ministry) announced it would reconsider its "policy", which was once decided on March 6, of recognizing the diplomas of 16 "international" high schools.
		In other words, the Education Ministry turned around and used the very school-certification criterion it had suspended three days earlier to place ethnic high schools at a further disadvantage vis-a-vis their international counterparts.
		As of July 1, the Education Ministry's final determination on the academic status of ethnic high schools is still pending.
	www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.Sub.2.2003.NGO.7.En (975 words)

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