Vol.18 No.70 1999

CONTENTS

SPECIAL FEATURE

2: Global Environment Monitoring System Using Undersea Communications Cable
8: Single-Photon Turnstile Device
11: The necessity of Parents : A Novel Genetic View

17: Generation of an Enormous Eye with an Orbiting Radio Telescope
20: Technologies for Lunar and Planetary Exploration

24: NTT Power Saving Vision in the Multimedia Era
26: A 1-kW Portable Fuel Cell System Using Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

INTERVIEW

29: An Interview with Jun Murai, Professor of Keio University
Attaining the Next-Generation Internet through U.S.-Japan Research

STATISTICS

32: Japan's Technology Exports

TOPICS

36: New Process for Hydrogen Production
37: Compact Machine Tests Fretting Fatigue
38: New Compound Discovered to Fight HIV-1
38: Microwave Tech Produces High Grade Graphite
39: Transmittimg Color Images: A New Tool
39: Robots in Space: NASDA and DLR
40: New Video Retrieval Technology