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据《自然》周刊报道,尽管日本近来遭受到其自从二战以来的最严重经济危机,但日本政府和工业部门继续大力推进研究与开发,把之看为是振兴经济、重获繁荣之本。 日本科技厅已计划1999年大大增加其在脑科学和基因组研究方面的预算,并将追拨新的资金用于建造深海钻探船,这是扩大其“国际海洋钻探计划”的关键部分。科技厅1999年的预算申请总额为7618亿日元,仅增长2.9％,但它现在又提出追加预算178亿日元（等于1.23亿美元）,以用于加强该国的电信和科学技术基础设施,这等于又增长了2.3％。
Although Japan has recently suffered its worst economic crisis since World War II, Japan's government and industrial departments continue to vigorously promote research and development as the basis for rejuvenating the economy and regaining prosperity, according to the “Nature” magazine. The Japan Agency for Science and Technology has planned to substantially increase its budget for brain science and genomics research in 1999 and will reclaim new funding for the construction of deep-sea drilling vessels, a key part of expanding its International Marine Drilling Program. However, the Office of Science and Technology now submitted an additional budget of 17.8 billion yen (equivalent to 123 million U.S. dollars) for the budgeted expenditure of 7.618 trillion yen, a mere increase of 2.9%, to be spent on strengthening the country's telecommunications and science and technology infrastructure , Which equates to an increase of 2.3%.