「東北ＩＬＣ推進協議会」代表の里見進東北大総長と高橋宏明東北経済連合会会長は３１日、文部科学省を訪れ、馳浩文科相に国内誘致の早期決定などを求める要望書を手渡した。(Susumu Satomi, President of Tohoku Universty and Hiroaki Takahashi, Chair of Tohoku Economic federation visited Minister of MEXT, Horofumi Hase on 31 March, and handed a petition asking for the government’s positive reaction for inviting the ILC to japan)

Le CNRS apporte une contribution importante à ce projet via des activités à l’interface entre machine et détecteur (…) Les équipes françaises acquièrent ainsi de l’expertise dans des domaines touchant les futurs projets de collisionneurs d’électrons et/ou de positons à plus haute énergie (comme l’International Linear Collider – ILC – au Japon, le futur collisionneur circulaire du Cern et Circular Electron Positron Collider – CEPC – en Chine).

県立大（滝沢市）の鈴木厚人学長による国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）講演会は２９日、大船渡市内のホテルで開かれた。鈴木学長は東北、日本の真の復興の象徴となりうる国際的な「知の拠点」形成が、地方創生につながると訴えた。(…) 欧州合同原子核研究所（ＣＥＲＮ、スイス）に毎年１０万人の観光客が訪れていることを踏まえた経済効果や誘客効果にも言及。「ＩＬＣ誘致は地方都市をグローバル都市に変革させ、経済活性化につながる」と強調した。(A lecture by Iwate Prefectural University president Atsuto Suzuki about the International Linear Collider was held at a hotel in Ofunato City on March 29th. President Suzuki stated that the formation of the international “knowledge hub,” which could become the symbol of true recovery for Tohoku and Japan, would lead to regional revitalization (…) He also mentioned economic benefits and bringing more visitors to the region based on the 100,000 visitors coming to CERN in Switzerland every year, emphasizing that “Bringing the ILC will transform regional cities into global cities, and lead to an invigorated economy.”)
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約１７０の国や地域の議会が加盟する「列国議会同盟（ＩＰＵ）」の会議が１６～２３日までザンビアで開かれ、ＩＬＣの実現へ、欧州の国会議員との関係構築を進めた鈴木氏は「ＩＰＵの場を活用し、欧州などとの枠組みづくりを進めたい」と今後を見据える。(The assembly for the Inter-Parliamentary Union, (…) was held in Zambia from March 16th to 23rd, with Liberal Democratic Party House of Representatives member Shunichi Suzuki participating as the head of the group of Diet members from Japan. Mr. Suzuki, who built relationships European members of parliament towards realizing the ILC, stated his plans for the future that “I want to make use of the IPU to establish frameworks with Europe and other countries.”)
Full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

被災地の復興やまちづくり、防災対策を考えるシンポジウムが２２日、仙台市青葉区のウェスティンホテル仙台であった。
　経済評論家の三橋貴明氏が東北復興と日本の経済成長をテーマに基調講演。デフレ脱却策として公共投資の重要性を説き、「東北の復興事業や世界中の知性が集まる国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）に、政府は積極的に投資するべきだ」と語った。(A symposium to discuss the urban development and disaster prevention was held in the hotel in Sendai on 22 March. Takaaki Mitsuhashi, a economic analyst and a speaker at the symposium stressed the importance of investment in public sector as a deflation-fighting measures and said “Japanese government should invest aggressively into the earthquake reconstruction projects and the ILC, where the intelligence from all over the world will gather)

The other main purpose [of building the ILC] would be to produce copious quantities of the Higgs Boson, something like 20.000 Higgs Bosons a year, every one of which we could study and analyze. So this is the ideal place to pick apart the Higgs Boson. And of course we’re hoping to see evidence for new physics processes, maybe supersymmetric particles.