Japanese Nobel Laureate Penalized, Researcher Fired!
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,…
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Japan Boosts Research Funding to Keep Pace with China & South Korea
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…
Can Innovation Change the Future of Science in Japan?
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…
Japan’s Economic Challenges Stagnate Scientific Output
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…
Japan and Taiwan Seek to Root Out Research Misconduct
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…
Author Accused of Misconduct for “Game-changing” Stem Cell Papers
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…