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Nature 419, 547 (10 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419547b

Winning universities set out to fulfil Japan's plans for excellence

David Cyranoski

Japan's education ministry has named the first 113 centres of excellence to be set up at the nation's universities.The programme, which aims to make Japanese research more competitive, saw 464 groups from 163 public and private universities compete for the awards.