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Winds of change blow away the cobwebs on campus

Nature volume 429, pages 210–214 (2004)Cite this article

Japan's hidebound university system is being reformed.

Gone are the halcyon days when industrial and university employees accepted their lot in return for benefits such as the security of lifetime employment. A protracted recession has triggered a drive for change with restructuring efforts in recent years affecting most of the country's academic and industrial research laboratories.

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Cyranoski, D., Chou, Ih. Winds of change blow away the cobwebs on campus. Nature 429, 210–214 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/429210a

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