米国大学の特許取得ランキング
2006年４月、特許商標庁（*U.S. Patent Trademark Office）は、2005年度に最も多くの特許数を取得した大学のリストを発表した。第一位は、１２年連続でカリフォルニア大学。ランキングは、上位 10大学が発表されるが、2005年度は同順位が３つあるため、13の大学がランクインしている。
2005年度及び2004年度のランキングは以下のとおり。2005年度は、2004年度に比べ、新たに4大学（フロリダ大学、ジョージア工科大 学、ペンシルバニア大学、コーネル大学）がランクインした。一方、2004年度トップ10に入っていたイリノイ大学は、2005年度はランク外であった。
*U.S. Patent Trademark Office (USPTO)
米国商務省の指揮下の政府機関。主な任務は、申請された特許及び商標の審査・登録、特許及び商標の情報提供、発明者への排他的特許利用権の付与など。
| 大学名 | 2005年度 | 2004年度 | ||
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| 順位 | 特許数 | 順位 | 特許数 | |
| カリフォルニア大学 | 1 | 390 | 1 | 424 |
| マサチューセッツ工科大学 | 2 | 136 | 3 | 132 |
| カリフォルニア工科大学 | 3 | 101 | 2 | 135 |
| スタンフォード大学 | 4 | 90 | 6 | 75 |
| テキサス大学 | 4 | 90 | 4 | 101 |
| ウィスコンシン大学 | 5 | 77 | 8 | 64 |
| ジューンズホプキンス大学 | 6 | 71 | 5 | 94 |
| ミシガン大学 | 6 | 71 | 7 | 67 |
| フロリダ大学 | 7 | 64 | 13 | 41 |
| コロンビア大学 | 8 | 57 | 10 | 52 |
| ジョージア工科大学 | 9 | 43 | 19 | 37 |
| ペンシルバニア大学 | 9 | 43 | 24 | 32 |
| コーネル大学 | 10 | 41 | 16 | 40 |
参考：THE CHRONICLE of Higher Education（2006年4月21日付）
USPTOホームページ http://www.uspto.gov/main/aboutuspto.htm
JSPS represents at the 39th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival of Northern California
Date: April 15th . 16th (Saturday . Sunday) JSPS represented with Japan Pavilion
Exhibit, both days
April 22nd . 23rd (Saturday . Sunday)
Time: 11 A.M. . 5 P.M. daily
Place: Imperial Ballroom B . Radisson Miyako Hotel
San Francisco Japantown
JSPS/The University of Texas at Austin Joint Conference
“Interrogating Japan’s Soft Power”
Saturday, February 25, 2006
8:30am-5:30pm
The University of Texas at Austin
Dean’s Conference Room, GEB 3.312
Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco Office
The University of Texas at Austin, Center for East Asian Studies
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the historical and contemporary avenues of Japan’s soft power. Departing from a narrow conception of soft power that focuses on popular culture, leading scholars of Japan and the US from a variety of disciplines have been invited to also explore the roles of aesthetics, narrative, religion, science and national branding in generating soft power for Japan. We will question the relationships among concepts like soft power, globalization and regionalism and will explore the mechanisms and agents of a variety of forms of Japanese soft power. There are four sessions and each session is composed of two panelists. Fifty minutes are allotted for each person, including a brief summary of the main ideas in the paper (10-15 minutes), comments on the paper by the “partner” in that session (5 – 10 minutes) and Q&A (remaining 25-35 minutes).
Program
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Coffee & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Welcoming Remarks by JSPS & UT |
| 8:45 – 10:25 | Session: Japan’s Aesthetic Influence Susan Napier, The University of Texas at Austin Differing Destinations: Orientalism, Soft Power and Cultural Identification in Anime Fandom Christine Guth, Stanford University The Woodblock Print as Cultural Impression |
| 10:25 – 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 – 12:20 | Session: Religion and Soft Power Yamada Shoji, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Zen: An Imagined Soft Power William LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania Pulling Bioethics in a More Balanced Direction: International Attention to Japanese Concerns about Informed Consent |
| 12:20 – 1:50 | Lunch Break Boxed lunches served in conference room for Panelists Optional Tour of UT tower |
| 1:50 – 3:30 | Session: The Soft Power of Narrative William Tsutsui, University of Kansas The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University Cyberpunk Japan, Avant-Pop America |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 – 5:25 | Session: Contemporary National Branding Anne Allison, Duke University J Cool in the Global Imagination Iwabuchi Koichi, Waseda University Uses of Media Culture: Beyond Brand Nationalism into Cultural Citizenship |
| 5:25 | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30 – 9:00 | Dinner for Panelists |
Columbia University / Princeton University
１．出張期間： 平成１８年１月２４日（水）～２７日（土）
２．目的：
- フェローシッププログラム等本会各種事業等紹介
- シンポジウム共同開催打診（日本研究）
- 国際交流分野を中心とする大学調査
３．訪問大学：
- コロンビア大学
- プリンストン大学
- ニューヨーク大学
Nanoscience and Quantum Physics University of California at Berkeley and Tokyo Institute of Technology Interdepartmental Symposium
Nanoscience and Quantum Physics
University of California at Berkeley and Tokyo Institute of Technology
Interdepartmental Symposium
JSPS supported the event – View the ABSTRACT
Boston University; Tufts University, Harvard University; MIT
１．期間 平成１７年１２月４日（日）～１０日（土）
２．目的
- 国際交流分野を中心とする大学調査
- フェローシッププログラム等本会各種事業紹介
- シンポジウム共同開催打診（日本研究）
３．訪問大学
- Boston University
- Tufts University
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
UCSB
１．出張期間： 平成１７年１１月２７日（日）～平成１７年１１月２９日（火）（３日間）
２．目的：カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校訪問調査
３．訪問先： カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校
Visiting UCLA
１．期間 平成１７年１０月３０日（日）～１１月１日（火）
２．目的：カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校調査
３．訪問先 University of California, Los Angeles
（カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校）
Interview at UC Davis
１．日時： 平成１７年１０月２１日（金）
２．目的：カリフォルニア大学デイビス校における組織戦略等に係るインタビュー調査
３．訪問先： カリフォルニア大学デイビス校
JSPS/University of British Columbia Joint Symposium
Experiences With and Within: Christians in Japan from the 16th Century to the Present Day
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Friday, September 23, 2005
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Asian Centre Auditorium University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Saturday, September 24, 2005
9:30 am – 11:30 am Asian Centre Auditorium University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco Office
UBC, Institute for Asian Research’s Program in Religion and Public Policy
UBC, Asian Studies with support from President’s Advisory Committee on Lectures and the Faculty of Arts
The basic theme of this event is based on how the world has looked through individual Christian eyes, and how Christians have looked to non-Christians in Japan from the sixteenth century through the present day. Participants have been asked to prepare papers, which will be distributed in advance within the symposium. We expect to have a bound photocopy of the symposium papers available for purchase on September 23. Fifty minutes are assigned to each paper’s introduction by its author and subsequent discussion.
Program
| Friday, September 23 | |
| 8:15 am | Registration and complimentary refreshments |
| 9:00 am | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:15 am | First Panel: The Experiences of Japan’s Earliest Christians Presiding-Prof. Don Baker, Asian Studies, UBC The Confrarias and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan |
| 10:05 am | The Act of Apostasy Jurgis Elisonas, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University |
| 10:55 am | The Experiences of Individual Christians during Christianity’s Underground Years Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia |
| Midday | Exhibit of John Howes’ new book on Uchimura Kanzô, Asian Centre lobby, with refreshments |
| Lunch | Self-provided |
| 2:00 pm | Second Panel: 20th-Century Christians and the Japanese State Presiding-Prof. Julian Dierkes, Institute for Asian Research, UBC |
| 2:05 pm | Nitobe Inazo and the Sapporo Band: Reflections on the Dawning of Protestant Christianity in Meiji Japan George M. Oshiro, Obirin University |
| 2:55 pm | From the ‘Spirit of independence’ to National Theology: Rendering Protestant Thought at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University, South Bend |
| 3:45 pm | Kagawa Toyohiko: His Place in 20th-Century Japanese Society and Culture Mark Mullins, Sophia University |
| 4:45 pm | Reception, CK Choi Building, hosted by the Centre for Japanese Research |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner, Asian Centre Auditorium, ticket required |
| 7:30 pm | Uchimura Kanzô Keynote Address by John Howes, Emeritus, UBC |
| Saturday, September 24 | |
| 8:15 am | Complimentary refreshments, Asian Centre Auditorium |
| 9:30 am | Third Panel: Experiences With and Within Presiding-Prof. Peter Nosco, Asian Studies, UBC |
| 9:40 am | Japanese Immigrants and their Christian Communities in North America Ryo Yoshida, Doshisha University |
| 10:45 am | Roundtable discussion of the issues (all panelists), with audience questions and comments |
Please note: The events that begin Friday September 23rd and extend through noon of the 24th are free and open to the public, with the exception of the dinner and keynote address on the 23rd. Tickets for both the dinner and keynote address are available but only through advance purchase, and may be obtained by contacting the Department’s Administrator Maija Scott at maija@interchange.ubc.ca or 604 822-9266.
JSPS/CJS Joint Colloquium
The ‘Globalization’ of Japanese Studies: Southeast Asian Perspectives
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Colloquium: Friday, March 18, 2005
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Toll Room, Alumni House University of California at Berkeley |
Workshop: Saturday, March 19, 2005
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Seaborg Room, Faculty Club University of California at Berkeley (Invited participants only) |
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Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco office Center for Japanese Studies, UCB |
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Japan’s relationship with the Asian continent has long been a subject of historical analysis, journalistic reportage, and impassioned political debate. In recent decades, Japan’s successful industrial development has brought increasing Japanese investment in East and Southeast Asia. Along with that investment has come a growing prominence of “Japanese Studies” as an intellectual resource for Asian societies hoping to use Japan as a model for their own industrial development. The success of several of these societies in achieving industrial growth has bolstered Japan’s relevance as a guide to “modernization,” yet also poses crucial questions for both Japan and its Asian neighbors as they negotiate the terms of their current relationship and interpret the events of their common past. The increasing influence of China in Asian affairs has also raised speculations–in Japan and elsewhere–of a diminishing role for Japan in Asia as its relative economic importance declines.
This conference seeks to examine “Japanese Studies” in its current global context, focusing in particular on Southeast Asia. Coming from a region still intensely concerned with matters of economic development, one situated between and affected by the competing ambitions of Japan and China, Southeast Asian views of and research on Japan are of increasing intellectual and political significance, and offer compelling perspectives on the themes that may come to define “Japanese Studies” in the coming decades. We anticipate that the symposium will go beyond an emphasis on Japan’s economic role and importance to address the complex relationship between Japan’s “hard” and “soft” power within the Southeast Asian region; namely, Japanese governmental and private efforts to promote the field of Japanese Studies in Southeast Asia, as well as the growing interest among Southeast Asian youth in Japanese “pop culture.” Our hope is to invite speakers from Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, the Philippines and the United States to reflect on the significance of an Asia-centered Japanese studies, and the alternatives it may offer to views of Japan that dominate contemporary Western scholarship.
Program
| 8:30 am | Complimentary Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Opening Remarks Isao Kiso, Executive Director, Japan Society for Promotion of Science Andrew Barshay, Chair, Center for Japanese Studies |
| 9:10 am | Session 1: The Political, Economic, and Diplomatic Context Introductory Remarks by T.J. Pempel, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley |
| 9:20 am | After the Capitalist Developmental State: What Can Be Gained by Casting a New Light on the Japanese Political Economy Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
| 10:00 am | Japan-Southeast Asia Governmental Linkages and Diplomatic Relations Takashi Terada, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am | Japanese Contribution in Supporting China’s Reforms: A Study Based on ODA Loans Naohiro Kitano, Department of Economics, Kyoto University |
| 11:30 am | Indonesian Responses to Japanese Foreign Aid and Investment Annette Clear, Politics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 12:10 pm | Questions from the audience and discussion |
| 12:40 pm | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Session 2: Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions Introductory Remarks by Andrew Barshay, Chair, Center for Japanese Studies |
| 1:40 pm | Japan-Thai Trade and Cultural Relations Kitti Prasirtsuk, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok |
| 2:20 pm | The Future of Japanese Studies in the Philippines Lydia N. Yu Jose, Director, Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University |
| 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:20 pm | The Institutional and Cultural Context of Japanese Studies in Singapore Simon Avenell, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore |
| 4:00 pm | The Influence of Japanese Popular Culture in Southeast Asia Akio Igarashi, Department of Law, Rikkyo University |
| 4:40 pm | Questions from the audience, wrap-up discussion |
| 5:30 pm | Reception |
| March 19 9:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Follow-up Workshop |
JSPS/CJS Joint Colloquium – “Transformation of Experience”
JSPS’s San Francisco Office held its first science colloquium, this time on the theme “Transformation of Experience: Interpreting the ‘Opening’ of Japan.” The venue was the Alumni House on the UC Berkeley Campus and the date, 19 March.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Amity between the US and Japan. Celebrating this occasion, researchers from both Japan and the US considered the various impacts that the opening of Japan had on the life of the Japanese people. Appropriately, the event was held in cooperation with the Center for Japanese Studies, UCB.
JSPS president Prof. Motoyuki Ono opened the colloquium with welcoming remarks: “The JSPS San Francisco Office will, with this first colloquium as a stepping stone, endeavor to work even harder for the further development of scientific exchange between our two countries in every field of academic research.”
The Japanese lecturers expounded on “transformations of experience,” including modern thought, time management, physical culture, and education. The three US researchers addressed the opening’s effect on science, gender and theology in Japan. These presentations were followed by a panel discussion, including an exchange of views from the floor, on the theme “KAIKOKU in Comparative and Contemporary Perspective.”
More than 100 UCB researchers and students and other academics from the Bay Area attended the event. Through its process of considering “transformations of experience,” the colloquium was very meaningful in that it provided a platform for researchers to present unique work being conducted in the two countries on such subjects as the history of science and philosophy.
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| Hall packed with participants |
Participation in Lecture Series with Stanford University Postdoc Association (SUPD)
At the invitation of the Stanford University Postdoc Association (SUPD), on 18 February the director of the San Francisco Office gave a short lecture on trends in scientific research in Japan and programs offered by JSPS. SUPD boasts the participation of some 1,400 postdocs from other countries engaged in research at Stanford University. As it holds a seminar series to introduce postdoctoral programs to its members, JSPS was invited to come and describe its fellowship programs.
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| Lecture delivered by Dr. Seishi Takeda |
In his short lecture, Dr. Seishi Takeda spoke on the state of scientific research in Japan with emphasis on internationalization and the fostering of young researchers. As concrete examples, he then introduced JSPS’s fellowship programs with focus on its Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers. The briefing proved to be very productive, as the some 50 participants hailing from various countries asked volleys of questions particularly with regard to JSPS’s fellowship programs.
By continuing to hold such briefings, the San Francisco Office will make a wide appeal to young researchers from the US and other countries to take advantage of JSPS’s program offerings. In particular, the office will solicit applications for the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Short-term) for North American and European Researchers. In this way, the office works to invigorate international exchange among researchers via their participation in JSPS programs.
JSPS San Francisco Office Opening Reception
On 27 May, a ceremony was held to celebrate the opening of JSPS’s San Francisco Office. The venue was the Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina in California. This is JSPS’s second base of operations in the US, the first having been established in Washington, DC in 1990.
The office is housed in a building near the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Its principal functions will be to provide and gather information and materials needed to advance scientific cooperation and exchange with researchers mainly on the West Coast of the United States. The office will also carry out cooperative activities with local research institutions, among which science fora are slated to proactively disseminate information on the latest scientific programs and developments in Japan.
Prof. Seishi Takeda, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, will concurrently hold the directorships of both JSPS’s Washington, DC and San Francisco offices.
The ceremony opened with an address by JSPS director general Mr. Motoyuki Ono, who asked the guests for their support and cooperation to the new office. He was followed by Mr. Masayuki Inoue, senior deputy director-general, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), who read in proxy a message of greeting from minister Ms Atsuko Toyama. Among the some 140 in attendance were consul general Shigeru Nakamura, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco; Prof. C. Judson King, provost and senior vice president, Academic Affairs of University of California (UC) System; Prof. Beth Burnside, vice chancellor for research, University of California, Berkeley; and representatives of universities and other scientific research institutions in Northern California. They all applauded the opening of the office as forming a new base for scientific exchange between the West Coast and Japan.
In remarks based on their own experiences in US-Japan joint research, Prof. Christopher McKee, University of California, Berkeley, and Prof. James McEwan Paterson, Stanford University, expressed high expectation in the success of the new office’s activities. Lauding JSPS’s international exchange programs for their effectiveness, other attendants were quick to offer various ideas on cooperative activities that the office might initiate. All in all, the ceremony was a very meaningful event.
Fully utilizing its East and West Coast hubs of operation, JSPS will strive to promote further scientific exchange between the US and Japan.
