Asked about the development of nuclear-energy human resources within the context of national science and technology policy, he first referred to the positioning of nuclear energy in Japan\u2019s fifth Strategic Energy Plan, saying, \u201cNuclear power is an important base-load power source . . . contributing to the stability of the energy supply-demand structure in the long term, on the major premise of ensuring of its safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hagiuda then demonstrated his attitude of wanting to strive to ensure nuclear human resources, saying, \u201cJapan can consider safer uses of nuclear energy all the more because of the nuclear accident that occurred here.\u201d To combat young people\u2019s loss of interest in studying nuclear energy, he added that the country wanted to work with people engaged in the field of education on the matter.<\/p>\n
The minister was next asked about large-scale international cooperative projects, and whether Japan might become the site of the International Linear Collider (ILC), a linear accelerator. In his response, he mentioned that while he recognized the need for the project itself, the huge costs of constructing such a facility made it almost impossible for a single country to deal with it. Hagiuda indicated that the Japanese government would continue talking with related organizations about the project, though, including seeking a partner country to secure funds appropriately.<\/p>\n
Concerning ways to spur innovation, the minister said that Japan would focus on creating mechanisms to ensure that the fruits of R&D were \u201creturned\u201d to society. \u201cIt would be interesting,\u201d he said, \u201cto \u2018dig up\u2019 R&D results that have yet to be developed,\u201d and see\u2014in cooperation with the private sector\u2014where they might lead. He also emphasized his intention to promote cooperation among industry, academia, and government.<\/p>\n
Hagiuda then referred to various examples of unexpected fruits of development from the field of space science, such as the common GPS system used by millions every day, household-use insulation materials developed for rockets, and zero-gravity space toilets that might be applied to elderly care.<\/p>\n
He also stressed the importance of educating practical-oriented engineers at Japan\u2019s Kosen<\/em> (national institutes of technology, or NITs), which are\u00a0unique\u00a0institutions<\/em>\u00a0of higher education providing students with five years of engineering education from the age of 15. He stressed that they can serve as a foundation for Japanese monozukuri<\/em>\u2014craftsmanship and technology\u2014in the manufacturing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asked about the development of nuclear-energy human resources within the context of national science and technology policy, he first referred to the positioning of nuclear energy in Japan\u2019s fifth Strategic Energy Plan, saying, \u201cNuclear power is an important base-load power source . . . contributing to the stability of the energy supply-demand structure in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[352,187],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-policies","tag-hrd","tag-mext"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}