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Results for 'Tohoku University'

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  Japan's global connectors boost scientific research collaboration

  Six scientists whose transformative work reaches across borders.
  

  • Catherine Armitage, David McNeill & Smriti Mallapaty

  News feature 24 Mar 2019
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  Japanese universities test collaboration

  Insular institutions seek ways to better accommodate international research partners.
  

  • David McNeill

  21 Mar 2019
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  Lost in Japan, a generation of brilliant women

  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.  

  • Catherine Armitage

  News 24 Aug 2018
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  Japan bets on science diplomacy

  International collaborations are rising, but not enough to put Japan on the global researcher circuit.
  

  • Daniel Hurst

  News feature 16 Apr 2018
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  Japanese institutions resist reform

  Efforts to improve Japan's scientific status include top-down institutional change, but tradition is hard to break.
  

  • Ichiko Fuyuno

  News feature 6 Apr 2018
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  Japanese government urges young scientists towards industry

  With permanent academic jobs scarce, the government wants industry to utilize young talent. 
  

  • Nature Index

  News feature 23 Mar 2018
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  Japan's woman problem

  Less than 15% of researchers in Japan are female. Urgent culture change is needed, argues Noriko Osumi.
  

  • Noriko Osumi

  8 Mar 2018
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  What price will Japanese science pay for austerity?

  Japan’s stagnated research output corresponds with a deteriorating situation for young researchers. 

  • Ichiko Fuyuno

  23 Mar 2017