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This is an unclassified Foreign Broadcast Information Service report sent from FBIS Okinawa on 19 February 1993. It relays a Kyodo news item from Tokyo saying that officials at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) plan to set up a research institute, likely in 1995, for scientific study of art, culture and parapsychology, including telepathy, clairvoyance and UFOs, for application to next-generation industry. The MITI panel behind the plan was to draft an interim report by May.
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INQUIRE=DOC21D ITEM NO=00014063 ENVELOPE CDSN = LGX893 MCN = 93050/16139 TOR = 930501051 RATUZYUW RUESDJA3923 0501039-UUAA--RUEALGX. ZNR UUUAA ZYN HEADER R 191039Z FEB 93 FM FBIS OKINAWA JA TO AIG 4583 RUCWAAA/FBIS RESTON VA//ECON// RUCWAAA/FBIS RESTON VA//POLCH// ACCT FBOW-EWDK BT CONTROLS UNCLAS 4A SERIAL: OW1902103993 BODY COUNTRY: JAPAN SUBJ: MINISTRY TO STUDY PSYCHIC POWERS, UFO'S FOR FUTURE INDUSTRY SOURCE: TOKYO KYODO IN ENGLISH 0935 GMT 19 FEB 93 TEXT: ((TEXT)) TOKYO, FEB. 19 KYODO -- JAPAN'S BUREAUCRATS ARE BEGINNING TO TAKE THE BURGEONING NEW AGE INDUSTRIES SERIOUSLY WITH A PLAN TO STUDY SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA, INCLUDING PSYCHIC POWERS AND EVEN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFOS), GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SAID FRIDAY. THE MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY (MITI) OFFICIALS SAID THE MINISTRY PLANS TO FORM A RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF ART, CULTURE, AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY -- SUCH AS TELEPATHY AND CLAIRVOYANCE -- FOR APPLICATION TO NEXT-GENERATION INDUSTRY. THE PROPOSED INSTITUTE, WHICH WILL LIKELY BE SET UP IN 1995, IS THE BRAINCHILD OF A MITI PANEL ESTABLISHED LAST NOVEMBER TO STUDY CREATION OF AN INDUSTRY MORE SENSITIVE TO HUMAN NEEDS FOR ART, INNER PEACE, AND OTHER INTANGIBLE THINGS. THE OFFICIALS SAID THE PANEL, COMPRISING KEY FIGURES FROM A VARIETY OF BUSINESS AND CULTURAL CIRCLES, IS ACCUMULATING DATA ON THE EFFECT OF CULTURAL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS TEA CEREMONIES AND FLOWER ARRANGING ON THE STATE OF THE MIND THROUGH BRAIN WAVE CHECKS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATIONS. THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH WILL ALSO BE TRIED WITH TELEPATHY, UFOS, AND OTHER PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL AND OCCULT PHENOMENA, LONG IGNORED BUT GAINING CREDIBILITY OF LATE IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. THE RESEARCH WOULD INCLUDE BRAIN WAVE CHECKS ON THOSE WHO CLAIM TO EXPERIENCE TELEPATHY OR STUDY OF SUCH PHENOMENA AS SOOTHING MUSIC TRIGGERING QUICKER GROWTH OF PLANTS. THE PANEL WILL DRAFT AN INTERIM REPORT ON ITS ACTIVITIES BY MAY ## UNCLASSIFIED Approved for Release Date AUG 1997
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.