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Nature 457, 960-961 (19 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/457960a; Published online 18 February 2009

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Recession Watch: No time for nationalism

Atsushi Sunami1 & Kiyoshi Kurokawa2

  1. Atsushi Sunami is director of the science and technology programme and associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo
    Email: sunami-atsushi@grips.ac.jp
  2. Kiyoshi Kurokawa is a former special adviser to Japan's prime minister and a professor at the same institution.

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Basic research saw a boost in Japan's last recession. Better global links will help in the current one, say Atsushi Sunami and Kiyoshi Kurokawa.

During the 1980s, Japan rose as a technology superpower. In the United States and Europe, policy-makers, journalists and academics talked about how to compete with Japan or even be like Japan.

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