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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 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.
In Japan, corporates make reluctant partners
20 December 2017
Ichiko Fuyuno
Japan shakes up research funding system
1 August 2017
Tim Hornyak
An overhaul of Japan’s competitive grants programme could revive the country’s international science standing.
The rise and rise of a biology superstar
30 March 2017
Tim Hornyak
New data reveals universities in Tokyo are highly connected
17 November 2016
Tim Hornyak
The Japanese capital is a hub of local research collaborations.
Yoshinori Ohsumi's dogged attention to detail credited for Nobel win
4 October 2016
Tim Hornyak
The cell biologist's accolade is Japan's third consecutive Nobel Prize since 2014.
Lessons from rising stars
16 March 2016