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Dear Colleagues, Please see the following good news from Hitoshi Murayama regarding the recent budget activities in Japan. Sincerely, Norman Graf Dear colleagues, On Dec 24, the Japanese cabinet released the government budget proposal for JFY 2014 which will be voted on in the Diet early next year. It includes an official budget line for the ILC. This is highly important as it represents a qualitative change in the status of the ILC in the Japanese government and indicates that it is now a recognized project. It is a part of the budget for MEXT (Ministry for Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology) under the category Promotion of innovation in science and technology for the realization of the economic growth strategy 2. Strengthening the basic science research potential and building the world’s highest level research headquarters page 30 in http://www.mext.go.jp/component/b_menu/other/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2013/12/24/1342781_2.pdf “the economic growth strategy” is a reference to Abenomics, a proactive economic policy by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The amount itself is small, about $500K. However, this is highly significant symbolically, as the ILC is *recognized* as a project of the Japanese government. Note that this is *not* an R&D budget, which is supported through KEK. It is rather a specific budget for the Japanese government to seriously study the feasibility of an international framework for the ILC as a global project, as mandated by the recent report from the Science Council. For this purpose, they will ask KEK for basic data and KEK may ask for input from the international community. We will need your help. Happy Holidays, Hitoshi Hitoshi Murayama Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Todai Institutes for Advanced Study (TODIAS), University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-Ha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8583, Japan Tel: +81-4-7136-5961 FAX: +81-4-7136-4941 [log in to unmask] MacAdams Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel: +1-510-642-1019 FAX: +1-510-643-8497 [log in to unmask] Faculty Senior Staff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS 50A-5131F, Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel: +1-510-486-6659 FAX: +1-510-486-6808 [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the LCD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=LCD-L&A=1