ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a single topic: the survival of The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as Riken. Why should so much attention be given to one organization, even Japan's most important pre-war scientific and technological institution of its kind? The answer is at least two-fold: first, the case provides an example of the kind of effort required in the SCAP and Japanese Government bureaucracies to gain approval of what both American and Japanese scientists saw as an obviously desirable result; and, second, it tells the story of how what was (and still is) an important research institution was saved from dissolution.
