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During a visit here last month, Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita offered $4.4 million to help finance long-term visits by U.S. Scientists to Japan's government, university and industrial labs. He suggested that the National Science Foundation pick the recipients.
Charles T. Owens, a Japan specialist at NSF, said the funds would be sufficient to provide fellowships for between 75 and 125 U.S. investigators, depending on how long they planned to stay in Japan.
In addition, several Japanese agencies have included money in their 1988 budget requests to support research by foreigners. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, for example, plans to provide fellowships for 50 Americans and 50 Europeans. The Science and Technology Agency intends to support 100 foreign scientists, including 50 Americans. And the Ministry of International Trade and Industry is expected to offer spaces for about 10 researchers, according to the NSF's Charles W. Wallace.
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