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Part Promotion of Scientific Research

In accordance with the Science Council's recommendation of July 1989 on "New Strategies for Promoting Scientific Research - a New Program for the Deve1opment of Science", the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture has decided to promote large-scale research projects, which will form the basis of scientific research, by dynamically and flexibly selecting the research fields to be promoted in response to research trends, by intensive channeling of researchers and research funds, and thus promoting group research under solid cooperative systems (the New Program System).

Thus the Ministry has established a new category of "creative fundamental research" in its grants-in-aid framework, and has also taken necessary steps as to participating researchers in the projects so that Japanese as well as fore it grantees of the postdoctoral research fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) may take part in these cooperative research projects when the research leader regards it as appropriate.

The large-scale research projects which are being conducted in 1991 belong to the following five fields.

(1) Clarification of dynamic structure of organisms

(2) Research on global environmental change with emphasis on the Asia and the Pacific region

(3) Research on molecular system of artificial controlling function

(4) Human genome analysis

(5) Development of materials with the function of controlling nano-scale structures