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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Debates on the revision of the Science and Technology Basic Plan—a five-year initiative to boost public research spending launched in
1995—are intensifying in Tokyo. An interim document released last month by an ad-hoc committee of the Council for Science and Technology concludes that many of the targets set out in the
plan, such as an increase in the number of post-doctoral positions, have been, or are close to being, met. R&D spending now stands almost within reach of the ¥17 trillion ($US140
billion) projected for 2000. But the document also concludes that changes within the structural organization of research have been slow to occur. The composition of the scientific work-force
in Japanese public research has changed little since the introduction of the plan, and many university laboratories still lack sufficient technical staff. This is a preview of subscription
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Triendl, R. Japan considers the achievements and pitfalls of its five-year plan. _Nat Med_ 5, 597 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/9427 Download citation * Issue Date: June 1999 * DOI:
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