Japanese open infectious disease lab despite local and national protests

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Japan's National Institute of Health is relocating its headquarters and infectious diseases laboratory despite protests that infectious contaminants may escape from the new facility. The institute, which is responsible for containing communicable diseases in Japan, is eager to vacate the ramshackle, 60-year-old building that it has occupied in another part of Tokyo. Construction of the new building was delayed when human bones were unearthed. The bones are probably from Chinese victims of World War II biological experiments by the Japanese Army.

Buildings and facilities, Communicable diseases, Government laboratories, Japan. National Institute of Health Sciences

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Freer trade in US oranges helps Japanese researchers

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Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan will relocate its principal campus on land outside the city formerly owned by mandarin orange growers. The growers sold the land after they were unable to compete with an influx of American oranges under Japan's recently liberalized trade policy. Kyushu University officials hope that the move will achieve the centralization they have long desired. Tokyo and Osaka Universities are also planning to acquire formerly agricultural land for expansion.

Planning, Universities and colleges, Kyushu University

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Japanese panel proposes extension of cancer research

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A Japanese panel recommended extension of the Comprehensive Ten-Year Strategy for Cancer Control in Feb 1993. The panel comprises scientists with support from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Science and Technology Agency and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. The group recommended that the research agenda address metastasis, familial predisposition, molecular mechanisms, new diagnostics and treatments, prevention and quality of life maintenance.

Cancer research, Social policy, Medical research, Cancer

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