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Correspondence
Nature 414, 485 (29 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35107230
Japan's funding cuts hit the future of science
Eisuke Enoki1
- School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University, Kusunokicho 7-5-1, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Abstract
Raising the cost of postgraduate education is likely to exclude many promising students.
Since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi initiated structural reforms, the research system in Japan has prepared for extensive and rapid changes (see Nature 412, 364; 2001). In August, Koizumi's cabinet proposed a reduction in the national scholarship fund managed by the Japan Scholarship Foundation (JSF).
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