With the objectives of making a contribution to the worldwide advancement of science and technology and creating a leading intellectual hub in the Asia-Pacific Region, Okinawa Prefecture is promoting the establishment of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. A present, preparations are well underway for opening this institute and pursuing the goal of developing a highly original, international-oriented, and "best-in-the-world" graduate university in the natural science field.

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
The Okinawa Institute of Science
and Technology
A science and technology lecture meeting<br />

																	(held on July 3, 2006, at the Okinawa Institute of science Technology)
A science and technology lecture meeting
(held on July 3, 2006, at the Okinawa
Institute of science Technology)