[asac] ALMA-J budget

[Masato ISHIGURO]

Dear colleagues,

Big news from ALMA-J!

Attached is the e-mail from Kaifu-san to the ALMA Board members on the
ALMA-J budget.
Thank you very much for your kind cooperation to realize this important
breakthrough toward the Japanese participation in ALMA.   We hope to join in
a joint construction activities as soon as possible.

I wish you all a happy new year.

Masato Ishiguro
and ALMA-J team

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kaifu" <kaifu at nao.ac.jp>
To: <roy at oso.chalmers.se>; ";" <ccesarsk at eso.org>; ";" <rdickman at nsf.gov>;
";" <giacconi at aui.edu>; ";" <jim.hesser at nrc.gc.ca>; ";"
<vdkruit at astro.rug.nl>; ";" <afs at astro.caltech.edu>; ";"
<Richard.Wade at pparc.ac.uk>; <ytanaka at xray.mpe.mpg.de>;
<kodaira_keiichi at soken.ac.jp>
Cc: <ishiguro at nro.nao.ac.jp>; ";" <tetsuo.hasegawa at nao.ac.jp>; ";"
<kaifu at nao.ac.jp>; <miyama at yso.mtk.nao.ac.jp>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject: ALMA-J


> Dear ALMA Board Members,
>
> I am pleased to inform to the ALMA Board that the ALMA-J construction
> budget has been
> included in the FY2004 Government Budget plan announced on 24 December.
> The Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet approved 25.6 Billion Yen (239M$,
> 1$=107Yen)
> for the ALMA-J budget in eight years and 1.0 Billion Yen
(9.35M$,1$=107Yen)
> for the
> FY2004 budget.
> As I mentioned before, some other resources including personnel costs of
> ALMA-J staff
> will be provided separately through the NAOJ annual operation budget.
>
> This is a wonderful X'mas present for us, and is definitely a firm step of
> Japanese
> participation to ALMA from 2004.
>
> I thank all ALMA Board members for your great cooperation which has been
so
> helpful
> for us.  We will do our best for the formal arrangement toward a three-way
> ALMA with
> your kind cooperation.
>
> Best regards, and a happy new year to you all!
>
> Norio Kaifu
> Director General of NAOJ
> **************************************************
> 海部宣男    Kaifu, Norio, Dr.
>
>    国立天文台　台長
>    Director General, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
>       e-mail address:   kaifu at nao.ac.jp
>          住所：　三鷹市大沢2-21-2　〒181-8588
>          Address:  2-21-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan 181-8588
>              Office Phone：0422-34-3650    Fax：0422-34-3690
> **************************************************
>