Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) is an independent public body of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). JST plays a key role in implementing science and technology policies formulated in line with the nation's Science and Technology Basic Plan.
With an aim to promote and encourage the development of breakthrough technologies, JST provides various funding opportunities and strong support system for ambitious researchers.
CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science & Technology) is one of JST's basic research promotion programs. JST distributes public fund from the MEXT to support a broad range of scientific research relevant to the nation's Strategic Sectors. In the fiscal year of 2008, JST invests about 58.4 billion JP Yen for basic research to produce seeds of technological breakthroughs.
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The header image of this website represents the hope of the program directors that they can line up a series of promising research projects, like a range of lofty peaks of Yatsugatake Mountains in Japan. CREST, a team-based fundamental research promotion program, is one of JST's undertakings to promote basic scientific researches toward successful implementation of the nation's Science & Technology policies.
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