Introductory Remarks: Two Months After the Incorporation of National Universities

Special Feature : JSPS's Research Center for Science Systems and Its Role: Societal Demands Versus Scientific Research; Research Center for Science Systems ―Its Establishment and Operation; Toward Establishing New Scientific Research Evaluation System; Toward Making JSPS "Japan's NSF"; More Awareness Needed in Value of Serendipity; Humanities, An Earthshaking Discipline; My Appointment as Senior Program Officer; Risearchers, Don't Sleep on Your Laurels; Fostering Scientific Researchers with International Perspectives; Research on "Tatara" Smelting Ovens; Disciplines in Which Research May or May Not Prove Useful; Toward Sustainable Development of Bioagriculture; Toward a More Healthy, Comfortable Society; Reforming the Competitive Research Funding System; Program Officer System at National Science Fondation; Research on UK's System of Managing Competitive Funding―Examples at EPSRC; Germany's Program Officer System―Seen from AvH, DAAD and DFG Examples; ≪Discussion≫JSPS's Research Center for Science Systems and Its Role

Special Contribution: UNESCO"International Declaration on Human Genetic Data

Core University Program: International Collaborative Research on Sustainable Production and Utilization of Tropical Forest Resources