Japan Science and Technology Agency
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The agency formed in 2003, as successor to the Japan Science and Technology Corporation. The corporation had formed in 1996 through the merging of the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST, est. 1957) and the Research Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC, est. 1961).
Among other activities, the agency runs J-STAGE, an "electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan," and publishes the Journal of Information Processing and Management (ISSN 1347-1597). As a funder of research, the agency requires its grantees to follow its policy on open access and open science. It has now made operational Jxiv, preprints server in Japan.
Directors
- Kinji Moriyama, 1973–1974
- Ichiro Nakagawa, 1980–1982
- Michinari Hamaguchi, 2015–2022
- Kazuhito Hashimoto, 2022–present
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