ABSTRACT
Science cities are new settlements, generally planned and built by governments. Kansai Science City, named for the highly-urbanized region in the heart of Honshu, Japans Main Island, is a huge development that has begun to take shape only in the 1980s. The Cabinet approved the site in September, one year before the Tokyo Olympics, and authorized the Japan Housing Corporation to develop the site; the Ministry of Construction was in charge of building the facilities. Tsukuba is located about 40 miles northeast of Tokyo and about 25 miles northwest of Narita, Tokyo's international airport. Though the outside world often associates it with Japans technopolis program, it was built much earlier, for different purposes though it did later serve as a model for several technopolises. And Akademgorodok is showing new signs of vitality in the 1990s, as its scientists start working as consultants and experts for Siberian enterprises engaged in a process of modernization, to open up to the international economy.
