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Japan's global connectors boost scientific research collaboration
24 March 2019
Catherine Armitage, David McNeill & Smriti Mallapaty
Six scientists whose transformative work reaches across borders.
Japanese universities test collaboration
21 March 2019
David McNeill
Insular institutions seek ways to better accommodate international research partners.
Lost in Japan, a generation of brilliant women
24 August 2018
Catherine Armitage
Outcry greeted the news that a Tokyo medical school was rigging entrance exam results to favour men, but prominent female scientists say the problem goes further.
Japan bets on science diplomacy
16 April 2018
Daniel Hurst
International collaborations are rising, but not enough to put Japan on the global researcher circuit.
Japanese institutions resist reform
6 April 2018
Ichiko Fuyuno
Efforts to improve Japan's scientific status include top-down institutional change, but tradition is hard to break.
Japanese government urges young scientists towards industry
23 March 2018
Nature Index
With permanent academic jobs scarce, the government wants industry to utilize young talent.
Japan's woman problem
8 March 2018
Noriko Osumi
Less than 15% of researchers in Japan are female. Urgent culture change is needed, argues Noriko Osumi.
What price will Japanese science pay for austerity?
23 March 2017
Ichiko Fuyuno
