| Yujiro
HAYASHI, Ph.D. President of Knazawa University |
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It is a great pleasure to announce that the Project "Environmental Monitoring and Prediction of Long- and Short-Term Dynamics of Pan-Japan Sea Area: Construction of Monitoring Network and Assessment of Human Effects"of Kanazawa University has been selected as one of the 21-Century COE (Center of Excellence) Programs 2002 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. The purpose of this program is to fund research in specialized fields of high potential that are needed to form a research base of world class standards.
Kanazawa is a city that is blessed with natural riches, surrounded by the Japan Alps, Hakusan National Park and Noto Peninsula National Park. The Japan Sea is rich in natural resources such as fisheries. On the other hand, the Pan-Japan Sea area is the most populated and most rapidly developing area in the world. We are at a stage of a major transition in the environment. In recent years, various preventive measures and regulations have been developed to reduce the hazardous that have arisen in countries located in the Pan-Japan Sea area.
Kanazawa
University has a rich history
of research on the Pan-Japan
Sea area. I believe that our
previous experience and great
results will
contribute to the successful
development of this program
and that collaboration
with many researchers in the
world would make it highly
productive.
