1. Current Status in Japan relating to ExoPlanet Science
H. Shibai (Osaka University, ISAS/JAXA)
SPICA is expected to start its (Pre?)Phase-A.
SEEDS program of Subaru was approved as a five-year program.
Long-Term Plan for Astronomy in Japan is being discussed.
Others & Background

2. 1. SPICA is expected to start its (Pre?)Phase-A
(PI: Takao Nakagawa, JAXA)
- Mission Definition Review - Approved by JAXA
(almost as proposed. 400M USD)
- Largest Astronomy Program ever in Japan.
- SPICA will start as a ‘Pre-project’ of JAXA
- European Participation program is under its Assessment Phase of the Cosmic Vision (M Class)

3. 2. SEEDS program of Subaru
(PI: Motohide Tamura, NAOJ)
- SEEDS: Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks
Approved as a five-year program (Total 120 nights)
- Subaru Telescope + HiCIAO + AO188
- Direct Imaging of Jovian ExoPlanets in NIR
- Twenty persons participates (Including US)
- Observation will start in Nov

4. 3. Long-term Plan of Japan
- Science Council of Japan is working to make a report for the long-term plan of astronomy in Japan. (Chair: Norio Kaifu)
- Nation-wide symposium on May June 1 for
discussion as a bottom-up activity
- Participation to world-wide projects (TMT, TPF/BDT, SKA, XEUS,,,,) as well as National projects (SOLAR-C, JASMINE, Antarctica,,,,)
- Final Report will be published in the next year.

5. 4. Others & Background
Five-Year Program on Exoplanet Science (10M USD, PI: H. Tamura) will be completed with large amount of science outputs. We are preparing the next proposal in order to extend this activity in Japan.
AKARI is producing new MIR/FIR point source catalogues.
-> IR Excess Stars Newly found
FIR Interferometer on balloon (PI: H. Shibai) will be launched in Dec
The flagship mission of Japanese Exoplanet community is still the 3m Space Telescope with Coronagraph (after SPICA).
(HCST: High Contrast Space Telescope)
Space-borne Medium-size programs will be investigated.
(JTPF WG of ISAS/JAXA & NAOJ)