Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2021

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[U-01] Earth and Planetary Science Community and the Science Council of Japan

Mon. May 31, 2021 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Ch.01 (Zoom Room 01)

convener:Eiichi Tajika(Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo), Kenji Satake(Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Taikan Oki(Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), Gaku Kimura(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chairperson:Eiichi Tajika(Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo), Taikan Oki(Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

[U01-04] Science Council of Japan: The System since the 20th Period

★Invited Papers

*Masaru Kono1 (1.Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Keywords:The Science Council of Japan

The Science Council of Japan was established in 1949, and actively submitted many recommendations and opinions to the government. But the relation between the government and the SCJ was not smooth all the time. The law of the SCJ was updated in 2004, and a new system for the SCJ was introduced in 2005 at the start of the 20th Period.

The important changes implemented at the 20th Period are (1) the SCJ consists of 3 Sections instead of the former 7 divisions, (2) the members are elected by co-optation, and others. In the area of science familier with us, the most important change was, (3) whereas there were separate Kenkyu-Renraku-Iinkais for Geology, Geography, and Geophysics before the change, all of these disciplines were merged into a single disciplinary committee of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

This system was continued to the present day without big changes. Accordingly, we need to examine the system since 2005 to understand the problems the SCJ is facing today.