在过去的五年中,国家科学基金会驻东京办事处写了一系列关于美国头号竞争对于——日本的科技动向报告。总的说来,这些报告展示出一幅独一无二的连续画卷:日本如何改变战略,以使其科技机构适应日本人的进步观念。最新的一些报告谈到了下列问题:日本两个主要技术机构之间的竞争;日本对美国学术及工业研究的财政资助趋势;日本新强调科学技术应适应人类的需要;以及一份关于日本的 Over the past five years, the NSF Tokyo has written a series of reports on the science and technology trends of the United States' top number competition with Japan. All in all, the reports show a unique and continuous picture of how Japan has changed its strategy to adapt its science and technology institutions to the Japanese concept of progress. Some of the latest reports address the following issues: competition between Japan's two major technical agencies; Japan's financial support for academic and industrial research in the United States; Japan's new emphasis on science and technology to meet the needs of humankind; and a report on Japan's