Thanks for this news Jim. It will be interesting to hear some more of the detail -- how many projects were on the high priority list, and which others of significant cost. But at least this seems a clear positive. regards, Paul On 1/30/2020 3:27 AM, James Brau wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > The Science Council of Japan has announced the ‘Master Plan 2020’ on > large > academic facilities > (http://www.scj.go.jp/ja/info/kohyo/pdf/kohyo-24-t286-1.pdf: > in Japanese). The ILC was selected as one of the projects that went to > the hearing > stage indicating that the scientific merit of the ILC was recognized > by the committee. > This allows the ILC project to move to the next phase. There is a > strong support for > the ILC by the US government, and the European Strategy Update will > soon make > its report public. Now we must strengthen our efforts together to > bring the > ILC project to the next stage. We will soon learn the reaction of MEXT > to this > > Best regards , > Jim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > -- Paul Grannis ([log in to unmask]) D-142 Graduate Physics Building Phone 631 632 8088; FAX 631 632 8101 ######################################################################## 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