Nature 1992 David Swinbanks |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Among the rice fields, Japan tests the international waters. (international science in Japan) (includes information on Tsukuba International School in Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
A steady course towards the next tokamak. (fusion energy research in Japan) (includes information on plans for a helical fusion device in Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Big increase for MITI budget emphasizes energy technology. (Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry) (includes information on the budget of Japan's Science and Technology Agency) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
CERN officials visit Tokyo, hat in hand, in search of funds for their next big collider. (European Laboratory for Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider) (includes information on the Superconducting Super Collider) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Jeffrey Mervis |
Computing in the real world. (Japanese computing) (includes information on proposed collaboration between Japan's Real World Computing project and the US optoelectronics industry) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Alison Abbott, Christopher Anderson, Ian Mundell |
Conflict over scope of research splits Human Frontier programme. (Human Frontier Science Program) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Alison Abbott, Jeffrey Mervis |
Contradictory US trade policy opens supercomputer market to Japanese. (includes related article on supercomputers in Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Christopher Anderson |
Freer trade in US oranges helps Japanese researchers. (Kyushu University moving to land formerly occupied by mandarin orange farmers) (includes related information) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
House vote to kill SSC reflects squeeze that budget deficit puts on all research. (House of Representatives and the Superconducting Super Collider) (includes information on the Japanese government's funding of science) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Christopher Anderson, Jeffrey Mervis |
Japanese debate more or better links. (computer networks) (includes how the networks are shut down to allow firms to make bids on operating them) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japanese ministry requests large increase for competitive university grants. (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japanese open infectious disease lab despite local and national protests. (National Institute of Health lab in Tokyo) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japanese physicists say SSC will hurt domestic research. (Superconducting Super Collider) (includes related article on Japan's high-energy physics research priorities) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japanese report shows cracks in predicting earthquakes. (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture report) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japanese scientists begin closed debate on size of contribution to SSC. (Superconducting Super Collider) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan floats big drilling plans. (deep-sea drilling) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan modifies plans for plutonium in wake of protests over shipments. (includes related article) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan moves gingerly towards guidelines on gene therapy. (includes information on plans of U.S. firms to market gene therapy in Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan plans furnace reactor to consume Soviet plutonium. (fast-breeder reactors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan's MITI opens domestic R&D projects to foreign participation. (Ministry of International Trade and Industry's research and development) (includes related information) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan topples tradition with move to foreign reviewers. (Tokyo University invites Western scientists to help evaluate its physics department) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Japan wants global guidelines for joint research projects. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Alison Abbott, Jeffrey Mervis |
Korea begins funding projects to catch up with rest of world. (South Korean technology projects) (includes information on the Korea Institute of Science and Technology) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Korea invites West to help it narrow the gap in technology. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Nature's roots in Japan. (Science in Japan) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, John Maddox |
NTT to unhook mobile phones. (Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. to separate from its mobile communications sector) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Recession forces Japanese industry to cut back on support of universities. | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Reforming Japan's science for the next century. (Science in Japan) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, John Maddox |
RIKEN - Japan's leading light. (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) (Science in Japan) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, John Maddox |
Rising toll from AIDS in Japan prompts big jump in spending. (Ministry of Health and Welfare spending) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Science panel's report could end whaling ban. (International Whaling Commission's panel and commercial whaling) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Ian Mundell |
Search for contaminant in EMS outbreak goes slowly. (eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome) (includes related information) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Christopher Anderson |
Semiprivate research: best of both worlds. (institutes) (Science in Japan) (Cover Story) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, John Maddox |
Trying to shake Japan's faith in forecasts. (earthquakes) (includes information on Japan's volcano prediction program) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
US prepares to adopt world patent standards: first-to-invent rule would be dropped; talks, bills seek harmony with Europe, Japan. (includes information on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's fees for small-scale inventors) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks, Traci Watson, Christopher Anderson |
When silence isn't golden. (conference on the ethics of human genome research in Japan) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
Without a way to measure their success, Japanese projects are very hard to stop. (includes information on Japan's fifth-generation computer project) | Zoology and wildlife conservation | David Swinbanks |
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