2016 Volume 12 Pages 125-138
The fourth Science and Technology Basic plan was supposed to start in April 2011, but the Great East Japan Earthquake followed by the accident of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants struck in March. Then the Council for Science and Technology Policy decided to revise the Plan. In this process a government bureaucrat informally asked STS researchers to give advice for revising the plan. Several STS researchers discussed the revision of the plan and the result was sent to the bureaucrat.
This article describes how STS researchers cooperated the revision of the Basic Plan as objectively as possible by citing materials used in the discussion by STS researchers in those days. This is a historical report of STS researchers who thought to be proactive in giving expert advice to the government facing the great disaster.
