Senga Silk Road
(Provided by National Institute of Informatics)

Digital Silk Road Project is a research project to realize the following goals by integrating information technology with the study of culture.
---To archive the huge amount of cultural resources that have been collected and studied from the ancient to the current in a form without deterioration.
---To inherit those resources for the future.
---To improve accessibility to those cultural resources for many people to actually see and use those resources.

Researchers have been working together with several international organizations and several universities in Japan and in foreign countries.

Examples of projects

• Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books


• Digital Maps of Old Beijing [The website is released on 14 July 2008]


• Silk Road Maps


• Senga Silk Road


• DSR Imaginary Museum

Digital Maps of Old Beijing

DSR Imaginary Museum

(Provided by National Institute of Informatics)

Joint funding of Japanese-French research cooperation

Based on the agreement concluded in June 1991 between the Japanese and French governments on cooperation in science and technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) agreed to establish a new scheme for joint funding of Japanese-French cooperative research projects in Japanese Fiscal Year (JFY) 2005. After consultations among JST and CNRS, “Marine Genome and Marine Biotechnology” has been selected as the field of research for which the joint funding scheme will be applied in JFY 2008.

JST shall provide approximately 5 million yen per project per year in average for the activities to be carried out by Japanese researchers, CNRS shall provide approximately 30,000 euro for the activities to be carried out by the French researchers.The cooperative research period shall be 3 years in total.

Press Release [French]
https://dri-dae.cnrs-dir.fr/IMG/pdf/JST_Appel_d_offres_Internet_07072008_V2.pdf

Guidelines for Application of Strategic Japanese-French Cooperative Program on “Marine Genome and Marine Biotechnology”[English]
http://www.jst.go.jp/sicp/guidelines_fr5th.pdf

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
http://www.cnrs.fr/

Japan sees quiet jets, frigid cars, water-saving toilets in near future
Japan's advanced technology may come in handy in the face of the world's growing environmental challenges and the Group of Eight's slow progress on diplomacy.
The technologies put on display for the media at the Rusutsu media center's "environmental showcase"...[more]
[From the article of July 9, 2008: The Japan Times Online]

G8 tech ministers agree on teamwork
The Group of Eight science and technology ministers agreed 15 June to promote cooperation between their countries as well as with developing nations to address global issues such as climate change and sustainable development from a technological standpoint.
The one-day meeting was chaired by Fumio Kishida, Japan's state minister in charge of science and technology policy, who expressed hope that the talks will contribute to the success of the G8 summit on 7 to 9 July in Hokkaido....[more]
[From the article of June 14, 2008: The Japan Times Online]

G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Special Report
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/G8_summit_2008.html
[From The Japan Times Online]

Eco-friendly technologies on show at G-8 press center
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/summit/20080707TDY02303.htm
[From the article of July 7, 2008: Daily Yomiuri Online]

(Source: Fumio Kishida's Website)