Interview conducted at Orsay and Saclay on January 15, 2015 by the Nomura Research Institute investigating future french interests and participation in the ILC Project

Japanese delegation : Satoshi MIHARA, Professor, Institute of particle and nuclear studies (KEK)
Susumu KAMADA, Emeritus professor (KEK)
Michio KITAMURA, Deputy general manager (NRI)
Tomohiko TANABE, Project assistant professor, International center for elementary particle physics (University of Tokyo)

French participants :
CEA-IRFU :
Philippe CHOMAZ (Head of the Institute for research into the fundamental laws of the universe, CEA-IRFU)
Anne-Isabelle ETIENVRE (Head of particle physics division, CEA-IRFU)
Pierre VEDRINE (Head of the accelerator and cryo-magnetism division, CEA-IRFU)
LAL-ORSAY :
Fabien CAVALIER (Deputy Director, LAL-Orsay)
Philip BAMBADE (Head of the LAL Accelerator department and French co-director of the TYL-FJPPL, LAL-Orsay)
Roman POESCHL (Head of LAL ILC group, LAL-Orsay)
David ROUSSEAU (Head of LAL Atlas group, LAL-Orsay)
Sébastien BOUSSON (Head of IPNO ESS project, IPN-Orsay, tbc)
IN2P3 :
Ursula BASSLER (Scientific deputy, director of IN2P3)
Bernard Launé (Coordinator for accelerator technologies of IN2P3)

Upper row, from left to right : D. Rousseau, F.Cavalier, M. Titov (CEA-IRFU), O. Napoly (CEA-IRFU) and S. Bousson
Lower row, from left to right : S. Kamada, R. Poeschl, M. Kitamura, S. Mihara and P. Bambade
Front row, T. Tanabe