Editing Cold fusion (section)

===Japan===

Between 1992 and 1997, Japan's [[Ministry of International Trade and Industry]] sponsored a "New Hydrogen Energy (NHE)" program of US$20&nbsp;million to research cold fusion.<ref name="pollack" /> Announcing the end of the program in 1997, the director and one-time proponent of cold fusion research Hideo Ikegami stated "We couldn't achieve what was first claimed in terms of cold fusion. (...) We can't find any reason to propose more money for the coming year or for the future."<ref name="pollack">{{harvnb|Pollack|1992}}, {{harvnb|Pollack|1997|p=C4}}</ref> In 1999 the Japan C-F Research Society was established to promote the independent research into cold fusion that continued in Japan.<ref name=JCFRS>{{cite web|url=http://jcfrs.org/indexe.html|title=Japan CF-research Society|website=jcfrs.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121185606/http://jcfrs.org/indexe.html|archive-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> The society holds annual meetings.<ref name=JCFRS2011>[http://jcfrs.org/JCF12/jcf12-abstracts.pdf Japan CF research society meeting Dec 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312140405/http://jcfrs.org/JCF12/jcf12-abstracts.pdf |date=12 March 2016 }}</ref> Perhaps the most famous Japanese cold fusion researcher was [[Yoshiaki Arata]], from Osaka University, who claimed in a demonstration to produce excess heat when deuterium gas was introduced into a cell containing a mixture of palladium and zirconium oxide,<ref group="text" name="mixture"/> a claim supported by fellow Japanese researcher Akira Kitamura of Kobe University{{sfn|ps=|Kitamura|Nohmi|Sasaki|Taniike|2009}} and [[Michael McKubre]] at SRI.