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)
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
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Tel: +81-4-7136-5961 FAX: +81-4-7136-4941
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