News in Japan

The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2022 featured top colleges and universities from over 31 territories in Asia. With Japan’s 118 universities marking their…

Scientific misconduct has laid its paws again on the academic community, this time in Japan. The author of the disputed stem cell paper, also a researcher at Kyoto University,…

After nearly a decade of stagnating funding for scientific research, Japan’s government has committed to a sharp increase in financial support for the sector in 2018. The…

Earlier this year, we wrote about science in Japan. In that piece, we said that Japan conducts less research because the country does not have much research funding. Why? The…

According to recent reports, academic research coming out of Japan has been declining over the past decade. Both the Nature Index database and Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science…

It is important that members of the research community and the general public trust the results of academic research. For the most part, researchers conform to rigorous ethical and…

It’s happened again. A bright, young researcher publishes a breakthrough paper, receives acclaim and adulation. Then questions arise. The work cannot be reproduced, the original…