In conducting this survey, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has two aims. Firstly, it hopes to grasp what is happening with respect to the research exchanges that are undertaken annually between foreign nations and Japan’s universities, its colleges of technology and its incorporated administrative agencies, etc. Secondly, from the results thus obtained, MEXT hopes to derive basic materials that relate to the topic of policies for the promotion of international exchanges.