A leader in Japan's development of nuclear energy, Mukaibo also has had a distinguished academic career. He spent 18 years as a professor at Japan's prestigious University of Tokyo, including a stint as dean of the engineering faculty, before being appointed to a four-year term as university president in 1977. He has served as president of the Japan Chemical Society, the Japan Association of Engineering Education and the Association of Engineering Education in Southeast Asia.
Mukaibo presided over the Japanese side of the US.-Japan Conference on High Technology and the International Environment, a group of science, technology and business leaders that met in Kyoto last November. Former US. defense secretary Harold Brown led the US. delegation to the conference, which was cosponsored by the national academies of science and engineering and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Both sides called on their respective governments to "avoid unwise, unilateral" ...
