Japan Science and Technology Agency

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST; Japanese: 科学技術振興機構) is a Japanese government agency which aims to build infrastructure that supports knowledge creation and dissemination in Japan.

[1][2] It is one of the National Research and Development Agencies [ja], overseen by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI).

[3] The agency formed in 2003, as successor to the Japan Science and Technology Corporation.

[2] The corporation had formed in 1996 through the merging of the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST, est.

[2] Among other activities, the agency runs J-STAGE, an "electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan,"[4] and publishes the Journal of Information Processing and Management (ISSN 1347-1597).