Kojiro, Honda

本田, 康二郎

軍事研究の核心は兵器や兵器体系の開発にあって、人命殺傷と施設破壊という明確な目的をもち、かつ極度の秘密保持を要求される点に特徴がある。これに対して基礎研究の核心は自然界の理解にあって、研究それ自体が目的であり、発見された知識は公開されるのが原則である。両者は対極にあるように思え、一見すると簡単に結びつくことはないように見える。ところが、戦前の科学技術者である大河内正敏は、これらを大胆に結びつける仕組みを考案した。その舞台が財団法人理化学研究所(1917～1948)であった。The core of military research is the development of weapons and weapons systems, which have the explicit purpose of killing lives and destroying facilities and is characterized by the need for extreme confidentiality. On the other hand, the core of pure research is the understanding of the natural world, the study itself is the purpose, and in principle, they should disclose the discovered knowledge. The two seem to be at the other end of the spectrum, and they don't seem to be easily connected. However, Masatoshi Okochi, a prewar science and technology engineer, devised a mechanism to connect these boldly. The stage was the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (1917-1948).
Based on these historical cases, researchers under modern Japanese science and technology policy will need to reconsider their freedom of research. If the investor of the research fund is war-oriented, can the researcher refuse the research related to the war? In the truest sense, if one wants to reject military research, each researcher must always be concerned about how their research results are applied and have a voice in their research results. If that doesn't happen, we need to find a way to report the results to the public in an easy-to-understand manner. When reporting, consider not only the merits of the research results but also the risks, and devise ways to raise public opinion on how to manage the research results. By doing so, it may be possible to restrain the movements of politicians, bureaucrats and military-industrial companies by public opinion in the unlikely event.森田雅憲教授古稀祝賀記念号(Honorable issue in commemoration of Prof. Masanori Morita's 70 years of age)application/pd

軍事研究と基礎研究 : 戦前の理化学研究所の科学技術政策

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