THE NEED FOR THE JAPANESE / U.S. COLLABORATION IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

BURTON RICHTER

Basic science has always been coducted in an open fashion that knows no national boundaries. This has been especially true in high energy physics, where exchange of people and collaboration on experiments has been the norm. However, the growing cost of planned large-scale accelerators, the apparatus required to exploit them, and even the size of the next generation of non-accelerator experiments require the scientific community to plan for a new depth of international and inter-regional cooperation. Japanese/U.S. collaboration in high energy physics is of long duration. The giant electron-positron linear collider, a multi-billion dollar scale project, is being designed jointly and can probably only be realized in a timely way by a U.S./Japan joint construction effort. The issues and prospects will be discussed.