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Nature 407, 935 (26 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35039706
Japanese court backs woman researcher
Robert Triendl
For what is believed to be the first time, charges of sex discrimination against a professor in a public university have been upheld by a Japanese district court.In a recent ruling, the government of Japan's Nara prefecture has been ordered to pay ¥550,000 (US$5,000) in compensation to Kumiko Ogoshi, an associate professor in the department of public health at Nara Medical University.
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