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The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST; Japanese: 科学技術振興機構) is a Japanese government agency which aims to build infrastructure that supports knowledge creation and dissemination in
Jxiv
preprints server in Japan.
Official site
Kawaguchi, Saitama Science and technology in Japan Independent Administrative Institutions of Japan Scientific organizations based in Japan Scientific organizations established in 2003 2003 establishments in Japan {{Japan-gov-stub
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST; Japanese: 科学技術振興機構) is a Japanese government agency which aims to build infrastructure that supports knowledge creation and dissemination in Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It is one of the , overseen by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
The , also known as MEXT or Monka-shō, is one of the eleven Ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the Government of Japan. Its goal is to improve the development of Japan in relation with the international community ...
(MEXT) and the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI). It operates from headquarters in Kawaguchi, Saitama
is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 607,373 in 293,582 households and a population density of 9800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . It is the Greater Tokyo Area's 8th most p ...
in the Greater Tokyo Area
The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tochigi) as well as the ...
, and in Chiyoda in central Tokyo.
The agency formed in 2003, as successor to the Japan Science and Technology Corporation
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The corporation had formed in 1996 through the merging of the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST, est. 1957) and the Research Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC, est. 1961).
Among other activities, the agency runs J-STAGE J-STAGE (Japan Science Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) is an electronic journal platform for Japanese academic journals, administered by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
It “supports the submission of manuscripts, pee ...
, an "electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan," and publishes the ''Journal of Information Processing and Management'' (). As a funder of research, the agency requires its grantees to follow its policy
Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organ ...
on open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
and open science. It has now made operationaJxiv
preprints server in Japan.
Directors
* , 1973-1974 *Ichiro Nakagawa
was a Japanese politician from Hokkaidō. He committed suicide at a hotel in Sapporo after he was defeated in the presidency election of the LDP—losing the chance to become prime minister.
Personal life
Nakagawa's eldest son was Shōichi ...
, 1980-1982
* Michinari Hamaguchi, 2015–2022
* Kazuhito Hashimoto
is a Japanese chemist. Between 2004 and 2007 he headed the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. In 2016–2022 he served as President of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and as the e ...
, 2022–present
See also
*Science and technology in Japan
Science and technology in Japan has helped fuel the rapid economic, industrial and economic development of the country. Japan has a long history and tradition for scientific research and development, stretching as far back as the Meiji period.
...
* List of Independent Administrative Institutes in Japan List of Incorporated Administrative Agencies in Japan identifies a number of semi-official entities which operate independently from its bureaucracy. Each of the following were created pursuant the ''Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administr ...
* Research and development in Japan
Research and development became increasingly important to the Japanese economy through the 1970s and 1980s and obtained significant support from the Japanese government.
Growth of R&D
As its economy matured in the 1970s and 1980s, Japan gradually ...
* SATREPS
SATREPS (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development, 地球規模課題対応国際科学技術協力) is a Japanese government program that promotes international joint research targeting global issues. The program is ...
References
:''This article incorporates information from theJapanese Wikipedia
The is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of , it has over ar ...
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External links
Official site
Kawaguchi, Saitama Science and technology in Japan Independent Administrative Institutions of Japan Scientific organizations based in Japan Scientific organizations established in 2003 2003 establishments in Japan {{Japan-gov-stub