With the Kitakami Times, local governments and foreign residents will bring you articles about ILC awareness events, interviews with local officials, initiatives to “internationalize” the area, and much more. Above all, we’d like to bring researchers and the general public alike a clearer picture of the Tohoku region of Japan.

戸羽太市長に続き達増知事が高齢者の多い災害公営住宅のコミュニティー形成、移転元地の産業利用支援や、ILCの誘致実現を（岸田首相に）訴えた。(Following Rikuzen-Takata city Mayor Futoshi Toba, Iwate Governor Tasso appealed (to Prime Minister Kishida) to form a community of disaster public housing with many elderly people, support industrial use of the relocation site, and attract ILC.)

岸田文雄首相は12日、陸前高田市の高田松原津波復興祈念公園を訪れ、東日本大震災被災者を追悼—達曽知事が—-ILCILC誘致実現に向けた取り組み強化を求めた。Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstruction Memorial Park in Rikuzentakata City on the 12th to commemorate the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake—— Governor Tasso called for strengthening efforts to attract the ILC.)

岸田文雄首相は—-ILC計画は「重要なプロジェクトであることは間違いない」と意義を認め、国内外の動向を注視して誘致の可否検討を続ける姿勢を示した。(Prime Minister Fumio Kishida acknowledged the significance of the ILC project as “there is no doubt that it is an important project,” and expressed his willingness to continue to consider whether or not to host the project, paying close attention to domestic and international trends.)

On Feb. 25, a panel organized by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) recommended physicists “shelve” discussions on Japan hosting the International Linear Collider, a proposed multibillion-dollar particle physics facility that would be tailored to study the Higgs boson, a particle that was first detected in 2012 at CERN in Switzerland.

With the Kitakami Times, local governments and foreign residents will bring you articles about ILC awareness events, interviews with local officials, initiatives to “internationalize” the area, and much more. Above all, we’d like to bring researchers and the general public alike a clearer picture of the Tohoku region of Japan.

With the Kitakami Times, local governments and foreign residents will bring you articles about ILC awareness events, interviews with local officials, initiatives to “internationalize” the area, and much more. Above all, we’d like to bring researchers and the general public alike a clearer picture of the Tohoku region of Japan.

They conclude that it is too early for Japan to proceed towards construction of the ILC and instead call for further research and international support towards the project.

この計画の学術的な意義は認められるものの現時点での推進決定は時期尚早とし，引き続いて再検討を求めている。その背景には，ホスト国の日本だけでなく推進役の欧州と米国が新型コロナウィルス感染拡大に見舞われ，建設費等財政負担に課題を抱えていることが大きく影響している。(Although the academic significance of ILC is recognized, it is premature to make a to promote it at this time, and further reexamination is requested. The background to this is that not only Japan, the host country, but also Europe and the United States, which are the promoters, have been hit by the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and have problems with financial burdens such as construction costs.)

ILCの誘致を目指す東北ＩＬＣ推進協議会は１８日、仙台市内のホテルで講演会を開いた。東京大素粒子物理国際研究センターの飯山悠太郎助教が、高速計算が可能な量子コンピューターや人工知能でＩＬＣ実験を補完できると説いた。(The Tohoku ILC Promotion Council, which aims to attract the ILC, held a lecture at a hotel in Sendai on 18 February. Assistant Professor Yutaro Iiyama of the International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, Tokyo University, explained that ILC experiments can be complemented with quantum computers and artificial intelligence capable of high-speed calculations.)

「（実現への協議を）前に進めるため具体的な動きを打ち出していく必要がある。速やかに予算に反映させたい。国際プロジェクトとして進めるための予算をぜひ取りたい」(It is necessary to take concrete steps to move forward (the discussion for realization). I would like to secure a budget immediately. I definitely want to secure a budget to proceed the ILC as an international project.)

文部科学省のILCに関する第２期有識者会議は14日、見解を公表した。学術的な意義は「大きい」と評する一方、国際費用分担のめどが立っていないなどとして、日本政府による誘致への関心表明を前提に準備研究所へ移行するのは「時期尚早」とした。 (The second meeting of MEXT’s ILC experts panel announced its views on the 14th. While it said that the academic significance was “great”, it was “premature” to move to the Pre-Lab, saying that there was no prospect of sharing international costs sharing.)