Faculty picks up the pieces of shattered research projects

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The Kobe earthquake killed 39 students, wrecked $35 million in equipment, and destroyed hard-to-replace research materials such as frozen genetic specimens and laboratory rats. An earthquake-research project will involve the geology, medicine, psychology, engineering and computer departments.

Analysis, Natural disasters, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, Earthquake, 1995

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Universities yank welcome mat for longtime foreign faculty

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America scientists in Japan are concerned that Japan's Ministry of Education, Science and Culture is deliberately replacing senior foreign lecturers with less experienced and less expensive younger teachers. Officials deny the charge.

Social policy, Alien labor, Employment discrimination, Foreign labor

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Support builds for curbs in lifetime faculty posts

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Japan's University Council of the Ministry of Education is likely allow universities to hire faculty on limited term appointments as early as 1998. The council hopes the move will foster creativity and job mobility among academics.

Laws, regulations and rules, Japan. Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Teacher tenure

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