科技研究领域中向来以注重应用性研究而著称于世的日本,现又开始重视基础性科学研究。近一年多来日本政府相继出台的一系列科技政策和计划就是一个明显的例证。这些政策和计划都把“加强基础性研究”作为今后日本科研的主要课题。 1992年4月日本政府通过的科技大纲,就提出日本要加强基础性研究,以适应国际社会对日本“应在基础研究领域多作贡献”的要求。1994年6月初日本通产省宣布的一份报告 Japan, which has always been famous for its applied research in the field of science and technology, has begun to attach importance to basic scientific research. The past few years the Japanese government has introduced a series of science and technology policies and plans is an obvious example. These policies and plans regard “strengthening basic research” as the major issue for Japanese research in the future. In April 1992, the Japanese government approved the S & T outline that Japan should strengthen its basic research to meet the international community's demand that Japan should “make more contributions in the field of basic research”. A report released by Japan's MITI in early June 1994