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Nature 413, 655 (18 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35099685

Top-heavy and out of touch?

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A powerful new agency needs to attain a more appropriate balance between Japan's policy-makers and researchers.

If there's one thing that almost all Japanese scientists, science policy-makers and industrialists agree on, it is that Japan would benefit from more coordination between its various governmental science activities. To that end, the cabinet-level Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) was born earlier this year.