Since the end of the last century, two asymmetric-energy

factories, the KEKB collider for the Belle experiment at KEK and the PEPII collider for the
BaBar experiment at SLAC, have been achieving a tremendous success that lead to the confirmation of the Standard Model (SM) in the quark flavor sector. In the summer of 2001, the presence of

violation in the

meson system was established by the Belle collaboration and simultaneously by the
BaBar collaboration through the measurement of the time dependent asymmetry in the decay process

. This measurement was the main target of the present

factories, and it was achieved as originally planned. The experimental data indicated that the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism, which is now a part of the SM of elementary particles, is indeed the dominant source of
the observed

violation in Nature. Following the experimental confirmation, M. Kobayashi and T. Maskawa were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics.
The present paper aims to provide the motivation, experimental methods and at least part of the scientific output that could be expected with an upgraded

factory, based on the succesfull KEKB collider and Belle detector, and planned to start operation in few years.
The Belle experiment proved its ability to measure a number of decay modes of the

meson and to extract Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements and other interesting observables: the precision of the measurement of the angle

of the unitarity triangle through the

time-dependent asymmetry has improved to better than 5% direct

violation was observed in

and

decays;
the angle

has been measured with

,

and

systems using isospin symmetries; the angle

has also been measured through the processes

and the evidence of direct

violation in

decays was obtained; the magnitudes of the CKM matrix elements have been measured much more precisely than before; rare

decays such as

,

and

have been observed for the first time; the first evidence of

mixing surfaced ; the quantum entaglement of neutral

meson pairs was directly confirmed . Through these precise measurements and new observations we have succeeded to overconstrain the quark flavor sector of the SM. The latter proves to be self-consistent within the current accuracy of the experimental results.
In spite of the tremendous success mentioned above, several fundamental questions remain in the flavor sector of quarks and leptons. First of all, the SM includes too many parameters - the masses and mixing parameters of the quarks and leptons - all of which are apriori unknown and should be determined experimentally. This is due to the fact that there is no principle to govern the Yukawa terms in the SM Lagrangian. Any Yukawa coupling between two fermions, irrespective of the generation they belong to, is allowed, as far as it is gauge-invariant and renormalizable. In spite of this fact, the measured CKM matrix elements show a clear pattern as shown in