「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」を新幹線利用者らに知ってもらおうと、奥州市はＪＲ水沢江刺駅構内「南岩手交流プラザ」の一角にＩＬＣのＰＲコーナーを開設。５分間にまとめた動画の上映を始めた。(Oshu city installed the video booth at the Minami Iwate communicaion plaza at the JP Mizuwasa esashi station, and started to broadcast ILC promotion video to gain more understadings from Shinkansen passengers.)

מאיץ שמציעים לבנות ביפן יוכל אולי לפתור את התעלומות שמאיץ ההדרונים הגדול בג’נבה לא הצליח לפתור בעת כתיבת הטור הזה צפוי משרד החינוך התרבות והספורט של יפן (MEXT) להחליט אם להמשיך בפרויקט ה-ILC. אנחנו סבורים שכדאי. (Japan’s offer to build accelerator may be able to solve the mysteries Large Hadron Collider in Geneva failed to resolve. —-When writing this column is expected to Ministry of Education and Culture of Japan (MEXT) to decide whether to continue the ILC project. We think you should.)

Another year, another summer. Japan’s summer season may be hot and humid, but it’s also full of traditional events that center on family and the community. Many of these “natsu-matsuri”, or summer festivals, are held in August during the O-bon holiday, which is all about paying your respects to relatives who have passed. It’s also a time to perform the various ceremonies and dances that have been passed down in each region for hundreds of years.
(Japanese translation available at the end of the article)

In this issue:
-Talking about 2016’s LCWS with Prof. Shinya Narita of Iwate University
-ILC summer camp at an Ichinoseki hot spring resort
-Kesennuma: Unusual treats, sake, biking, and sea frolicking
-A wonderful summer full of “natsu-matsuri”

そのほかの注目プログラムは、「Salone in Roppongi」。建築家・長坂常が世界で最も難解と言われる素粒子物理学の世界をデザインの視点で伝える。(One of the program attracting the most attention is “Salone in Roppongi.” Architect Jo Nagasaka will present the world of particle physics from his own view point.)

Next week, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced, and many scientists expect it to honor the detection of ripples in space called gravitational waves, reported in February. If other prizes are a guide, the Nobel will go to the troika of physicists who 32 years ago conceived of LIGO, the duo of giant detectors responsible for the discovery: Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and Ronald Drever and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. But some influential physicists, including previous Nobel laureates, say the prize, which can be split three ways at most, should include somebody else: Barry Barish.

Nevertheless, fundamental science has led to a myriad of influential applications in society. (…) The moral is that we won’t know the impact that building a new accelerator will have on society until many years after we use it. In the meantime it is guaranteed to foster peaceful international collaboration and continue to inspire the imagination and hope of future generations of scientists. During my time at CERN, I worked as a part of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the groups working to analyze the collisions from the LHC. (…) I’m optimistic that I will go back soon and continue working with the LHC. But in the far future, I’m excited to hear which of these accelerators the world will agree to construct, and which will likely determine the focus of my future career.

你也许不熟悉超大型对撞机，但不可能不认识 Hello Kitty。这只源于日本、风靡世界的小猫是“卡哇伊”文化的代表，其可爱甜美的形象已经出现在上万种商品上，每年畅销数十个国家。如今，Hello Kitty 有了一项新工作：国际直线对撞机（International Linear Collider，ILC）的形象大使，为 ILC 在日本乃至全世界争取支持。（You may not be familiar with the super collider, but it is impossible not knowing Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty is from Japan, but swepted the world with “Kawaii” culture by its lovely sweet image. She has appeared in the tens of thousands of commodities, selling dozens of countries each year.Today, Hello Kitty has a new job: ILC (International Linear Collider, ILC) ambassador for the ILC in Japan and around the world to gain the support.)

宇宙の起源解明を目指す超大型加速器国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の東北誘致を推進する東北ＩＬＣ推進協議会は７日、自民党や文科省、超党派のリニアコライダー国際研究所建設推進議員連盟に、海外政府への情報発信の推進などを求める要望書を提出した。
(he Tohoku Conference for the Promotion of the ILC is working towards getting the ILC sited in Tohoku, and on September 7th, representatives met with politicians of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology (MEXT), and the non-partisan Federation of Diet Members for the ILC (FDMILC). There, they presented a formal request for more information to be shared with foreign governments.)
Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

The request was broken down into 60 million yen for risk analysis, investigation, and research related to the international large-scale accelerator plan, and 50 million yen for developing the core technology needed to improve performance, reduce size, and lower the cost of a future accelerator. (…) Another 40.8 billion yen was calculated for support for the reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (reconstruction special accounts portion).
(Full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website )

　北上山地が有力候補地となっている素粒子研究施設、国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）を紹介するシリーズＰＲ動画「ＩＬＣ科学少年団」のロケが１８～１９日、奥州、一関両市で行われている。初日は水沢区内や国立天文台水沢キャンパスなどで撮影を実施。宇宙誕生の謎を解き明かすＩＬＣは、天文学とも結びつきが深い研究施設であることにも触れた。動画は今年１０月から１２月にかけ、全国のケーブルテレビ（ＣＡＴＶ）局で放送されるほか、インターネット動画サイト「Ｙｏｕ　Ｔｕｂｅ」でも配信する予定だ。
(The “ILC Scouts,” a program introducing the International Linear Collider, filmed in Oshu City and Ichinoseki City on August 18-19. On the first day, filming was held in Mizusawa ward and on the NAOJ Mizusawa Campus. The story touched on how the ILC, which could solve the riddle of how the universe began, has deep connections with astronomy. The episodes will be broadcast on cable TV networks nationwide from October to December this year, and will also be posted on Youtube.)
Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.