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Japan builds a science city

FEB 01, 1975
With a new university already open and a 12‐GeV proton synchrotron under construction, Tsukuba Newtown is to be completed in 1977.
Henry Birnbaum

Japan is building a major science city, Tsukuba Newtown for Research and Education, a project so massive that it took the government ten years to commit itself to the undertaking. Although construction at the site north of Tokyo has been under way for three years, the debate on Tsukuba still continues.

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Henry Birnbaum. Deputy Head of the Office of International Programs, National Science Foundation, University of Southern California.

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Volume 28, Number 2

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