Abstract
In the afternoon of December 8, l987, a seminar titled somewhat like "EVERYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT BIOSPHERE II" was held at Hotel New Otani, Tokyo. Biosphere II project is a plan to construct in a much reduced physical scale a materially closed structure that contains four terrestrial biomes, an ocean, a cultivated area, and an urban area with eight inhabitants. It covers about 9OOO m2 of Arizona desert. The project itself is certainly very interesting and significant from viewpoint of biospherics. The seminar, however, provided very little of academic substance. Its content betrayed the audience's expectations from its title.
