With the aim of boosting Japan's slumping research capabilities, the education ministry is planning to launch financial support for groups of young researchers engaged in international collaborative research in advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence and medicine. The support from the ministry will include travel expenses from Japan and costs for organizing research conferences. The ministry hopes the initiative will enhance Japan's research capabilities by facilitating interactions with leading researchers abroad, thus achieving results in promising collaborative research.

Universities are terminating workers on fixed-term contracts - but unions say the actions do not reflect the purpose of employment laws introduced 10 years ago.

After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations.

Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka suggested at a press conference that Kyoto University in Japan could ask him to resign over fraud committed by one of his center’s scientists.

Concern mounts over budget cuts and other changes that undermine basic science.

Concern mounts over budget cuts and other changes that undermine basic science in Japan.

Funding trouble at flagship research centre reflects a broader malaise in the country’s scientific priorities that must be addressed.

Biologist Yoshinori Watanabe publishes extensive response

The challenges facing researchers in Japan and some of the structural weaknesses holding science back.

Scientific output in Japan has seen a sharp decline in the last decade due to years of inflation, government debt, rising commodity prices and a series of natural disasters.

Academics protest over government's 'dual use' research programme — which received a big funding boost.

A career in research has surged in popularity among Japanese school boys – even if their female counterparts have not yet been attracted to the vocation is similar numbers

Anonymous individual or group claims that 22 papers from the University of Tokyo contain fabricated or falsified data.

7 universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses.

Ryoji Noyori, long-time president of Japan's RIKEN network of basic-research laboratories, has resigned after a year in which the organization was embroiled in controversy over fraudulent stem-cell papers.

One of Japan's top stem cell researchers, died in an apparent suicide. He was famous for his ability to coax embryonic stem cells to differentiate into other cell types.