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The Organization and Activities of the Science Council of Japan

Dr Ochi is president of the Science Council of Japan. In this article he traces the history, functions and activities of the council from its foundation just after the Second World War.

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  1. Committee for Compilation of Report on Research in Effects of Radioactivity: Research on the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Explosions at Bikini (Japan Association for Promotion of Science, 1956).

  2. The JSC: Science and Technology in and after the Seventies (Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Tokyo, 1972) (in Japanese).

  3. Fukushima, Y., New Scientist, 27, 178 (1966).

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OCHI, Y. The Organization and Activities of the Science Council of Japan. Nature 240, 188–191 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240188a0

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