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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.
“International UFO Reporter”1 page
PROVIDING CONCRETE IDEAS FOR THE PLANNED INSTITUTE. THE OFFICIALS SAID DISCOVERIES MADE AT THE INSTITUTE ARE LIKELY TO BE APPLIED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS TO INDUSTRY, ESPECIALLY FOR AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING. ONE EXAMPLE OF THE POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS IS A HOME-USE DEVICE WHICH EMITS SUPERSONIC WAVES TO RELAX PEOPLE BY GIVING THEM THE ILLUSION THEY ARE SITTING IN A FOREST, THEY SAID. ADMIN (ENDALL) 190935 31902.00 19/1040Z FEB BT #3923 NNNN
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.