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Round-table talks : Science and technology policy and synthesiology – Bridging science and values−133−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.5 No.2 (2012) often outdoes simulation.” This was imprinted so deeply in their minds that the children could make decisions on their own and wisely fled from the tsunami. That is why 3,000 children in Kamaishi successfully survived. It is called the “Kamaishi Miracle.”That is it. It is ultimately “people” who are the key. People who focus on social implementation have different goals than production of papers—not writing papers, but “I want to save as many people as possible at times of emergency.” The traditional discipline-based researchers of modern science will not say that because that will be denying their own work. However, many young researchers who engaged in action research suffer from the fact that they cannot write papers. That is probably why Synthesiology was created.AkamatsuIndeed, it is difficult to write about social implementation in an academic paper. I think Synthesiology is a receptacle for such papers.Education at the engineering department must shift from paper first to value firstKobayashiI think engineering was originally for making things that are useful for society. However, engineering turned into science and has moved toward analysis.One such example is the architecture department in the university. The evaluation is higher for people who can leave excellent architectural work rather than someone who writes a lot of papers, but that makes it difficult for architecture to be considered an academic discipline. Therefore, we decided to create a journal where the making of an architectural work can be published as a result.ArimotoWhat Dr. Kobayashi just said is very important, and Dr. Yoshikawa has stated this recently also. The method of education and training at the engineering department must be changed, and there must be a shift “from paper first to value first.” The curriculum of the engineering department must be changed. When the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) joined the Washington Accord in 2005, an international panel came to Japan for ProfileTateo ArimotoCompleted the master’s course at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University in 1974. Joined the Agency of Science and Technology in 1974. Worked as the Deputy Director General for Policy on Science and Technology and Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Works as the Director, JST-RISTEX and Deputy Director, Center for Research and Development Strategy, JST from 2006. Professor of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Visiting professor of Doshisha University, Waseda University, and Tokyo University of Science. Books and papers include “Science and Technology Policy”,(by T.Arimoto, in Have Japanese Firms Changed, edit. by Y. Nakata and H. Miyoshi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and “Rebuilding Public Trust in Science for Policy Making”(by Tateo Arimoto and Yasushi Sato, Science, Policy Forum, in press).screening, and I was surprised that it was written clearly in its report, “Japanese engineering education should be redesigned. It does not teach systems or design. There is no training.” The Imperial College of Engineering at the beginning of the Meiji Period, however, did provide world-leading sandwich-style engineering education with thorough basics, practice, and training.One of the greatest reasons for this change is because people have walked into their own little narrow paths and have become discipline-based. They cannot provide overall, synthesized knowledge and policy options that the citizens desire or the government wants. For example, they cannot discuss what will become of Fukushima in the future based on scientific knowledge. After March 11 last year, the responses of the Japanese scientists and engineers to the public and policies were so divorced from the expectations of society. The citizens saw this. There is a spread of distrust for science. We must do something about this.KobayashiWhat we, the scientists, can do and how Synthesiology can contribute are topics we would like to continue to discuss. Thank you very much for today.This roundtable talk was held at JST-RISTEX in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on February 27, 2012.

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