AC/UNU Millennium Project
Japan Node - 2002 Activities

Report presented at the March 2002 Planning Committee Meeting

Report presented in July 2002 Planning Committee Meeting


Report presented at the March 2002 Planning Committee Meeting

Mr. Koichi Morimoto, Science Attache at the Japanese Embassy in Washington DC, representing the Tokyo Node and presented the report sent by Mr. Shinji Matsumoto, chair of the Japan node on behalf of the Japan Society for Future Research (JSFR).

The main activity of the node in the last 6 month was conducting the S&T management implications interviews. Please click here to download the Power Point presentation.


Report presented in July 2002 Planning Committee Meeting

Mr. Shinji Matsumoto, chair of the Japan Node of the Millennium Project, member of the Japan Society for Future Studies, and President and CEO of CSP Japan (Space Business Consultant) represented the Node.

Interviews on S&T Management -November and December, 2001:

Goals for 2050 lookout study: 3 Respondents

Planning of the 2nd Workshop on  “Ethical issues of Science & Technology for the new Millennium”

The first Workshop on “Ethical issues of Science & Technology for the new Millennium” was on 21 September, 2001, at the UNU/IAS

AGENDA
Opening Address:  A.H. Zakri (Director-General, IAS)
                            Yujiro Hayashi (Chairman, JSFS)
Keynote Address:  Junnosuke Kishida (Emeritus Chairman, The Japan Research Institute)
Speakers:
     Biotechnology   Kazuhisa Sekimizu (Univ. of Tokyo)
     Robotics            Ken Tomiyama (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)
     Media                Hiroyuki Yoshii (Tokyo Keizai Univ.)
     International      Edson Kenji Kondo (IAS)

Subjects discussed:


The second Workshop on “Ethical Issues of Science and Technology for the new Millennium” In Case of Life Science and Biotechnology is planned for November 13, 2002, at UNU/IAS in Tokyo.

Coordinator is  Prof. Hiromichi Kimura, The University of Tokyo. The workshop will be bilingual, in Japanese and English.

The Japan Node also participated in The Seventh Technology Foresight; Future Technology in Japan toward the Year 2030
This is a Delphi Survey regarding S&T in Japan. It started in 1970 and is held at every 5 years, organized by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The works of the last study were published in July 2001. For more information: www.nistep.go.jp

S&T Fields Surveyed were:

Top 20 more important topics witht he year to be achieved were:
1. Marine & Earth: Earthquake forecasting several days in advance. 2024
2. Services: Reduce the disposal volume of disused manufacturing products to 1/10 .  2015
3. Resources: Safe disposal of highly radioactive solid waste. 2021
4. Life sciences: Identification of the genes related to typical lifestyle diseases (diabetes, hypertension, etc.)  2013
5. Information: Widespread use of highly reliable network systems (privacy, security).  2010
6. Life sciences: Surmise new functions of proteins from DNA base sequence data.  2009
7. Life sciences: Practical use of effective means to prevent metastasis of cancer.  2017
8. Information: Cheap (around \2,000 / month) and unlimited utilization of high-capacity networks (150 Mbpt).  2009
9. Marine & earth: Safety evaluation of the underground disposal of high-level radioactive wastes.  2016
10. Electronics: Practical mass production of LSI with minimum pattern dimensions of 10nm.  2015
11. Life sciences: Widespread use of drugs preventing certain types of cancer.  2016
12. Urbanization: Practical technology of disposing high-level radioactive waste.  2016
13. Life science: Medical treatment that leads dysdifferentiating carcinogenic cells into normal state.  2020
14. Manufacturing: Recycling system (at least 90%) in which manufacturers are obligated by law to collect and dispose of disused products.  2015
15. Life science: Improve photosynthetic functions in order to increase food production and preserve the environment.  2018
16. Life sciences: Diagnosis and tailor-made treatment by prompt and cheap determination of the individual genetic structure and SNP. 2012
17. Environment: Automobile emission control standard specifying a nitrogen oxide emission limit of 0.1 to 0.2 g/kg. 2011
18. Life sciences: Effective drug against multiple-drug-registant bacteria.  2011
19. Life sciences: Genetic diagnosis and treatment of cancer and incurable diseases based on genome analysis.  2014
20. Electronics: Portable multimedia wireless terminal operating at about 100 Mbps which can be used throughout the world.  2013

To view/download the complete powerpoint presentation presented by Mr.Shinji Matsumoto, click here.


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