A national organization that promotes inventions and works to protect intellectual property will launch an invention Web site for children Saturday in cooperation with General Electric Japan Ltd.
The Hatsumei (invention) Kids site is intended to nurture children's creativity by encouraging them to invent something, according to officials of the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation.
The site is only available in Japanese. It will contain content such as clear explanations of basic scientific knowledge, easy scientific experiments and reports on group members' scientific research, they said.
The JIII is running an invention contest to promote its home page. Elementary and junior high school students are asked to enter their ideas on ways to improve everyday life. For more information, check www.hatsumeikids.jp.
The JIII was founded in 1904 and has about 12,000 individual and corporate members nationwide. GE, whose former body was founded by inventor Thomas Edison in 1878, will provide the group with financial assistance to publicize and operate the site.