Japan ranks last in important papers in the G7．．．Kyushu University’s Fujiki Yukio warns， “Japan will no longer win Nobel Prizes” – what does this really mean？
Last place in the G7 for important papers…Kyushu University’s Yukio Fujiki warns, “Japan will no longer win Nobel Prizes” – the true meaning of this warning Series: Asking basic scientists about the nature of research and innovation | Business + IT Published 2024/10/22 Japanese scientific research is in a critical situation. The number of important papers that are in the top 10% of citation rates has fallen to the lowest among the G7 and 12th in the world. In response to this situation, Professor Yukio Fujiki, Distinguished Chair and Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University, who is highly regarded worldwide for his research on peroxisomes, a type of organelle, warns that “the situation in which we have always produced Nobel Prize winners will become difficult if things continue as they are.” We asked Fujiki to talk about the current state and challenges facing basic science in Japan. Cooperation: Osumi Foundation for Basic Science
Professor Yukio Fujiki, Special Principal Professor, Kyushu University Institute for Advanced Research Born in 1948 in Fukuoka Prefecture. In 1976, he completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in the US, an assistant professor at Rockefeller University in the US, and a senior researcher and laboratory director at the Meiji Dairies Health Science Institute, he became a professor at Kyushu University in 1994. In 2014, he became Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University. In 2021, he will be appointed Special Professor at the University of Hyogo, and in 2024, he will be appointed Special Principal Professor at the Kyushu University Institute for Advanced Research. He has received numerous awards, including the Japan Academy Prize (2023).
1. Why did Fujiki’s research win the world championship? 2. The number of young researchers who start research out of curiosity is decreasing. 3. The number of important papers is the lowest in the G7… What is Japan lacking? 4. If things continue as they are, “Japan will no longer produce Nobel Prize winners.” Click here for the first part (this article is the second part) We asked Fujiki of Kyushu University about the mechanism behind the clarification of “one in 100,000 incurable diseases” and “dementia prevention.” (Omitted) ※Full text at source.
>>1 In the national financial statements for fiscal year 2021, tax and stamp revenues were about 64 trillion yen and social security-related expenses were about 55 trillion yen In other words, 86% of tax and stamp revenues were used for social security-related expenses. In Japan, one third of the population is over 65 years old and their livelihood is supported by social security, and two people, including people with disabilities and minors, support the life of one elderly person, so the burden on the working generation increases and there is no budget for academic research and development. What Japan needs now is to drastically cut social security spending, cut taxes to increase disposable income for the working generation, and redirect the budget to academic research and development.
>>1 > The real meaning behind “Japan will no longer win Nobel Prizes” The real meaning is that the budget is allocated based on Tokyo University, which has inferior research capabilities lol Kyoto University is content with its position as “forever receiving 60% of the budget” and is not trying to turn it around. How can we compete with the world in a stagnant research environment in the countryside where there is no competition? We must immediately put an end to Tokyo’s monopoly on the world of academic research. What is suffocating this country is the Tokyo-centric, concentrated control of the Tokyo bureaucracy. Japan: of Tokyo, by Tokyo, for Tokyo.
All the smart people are doctors. Research jobs are guaranteed to be poor. That’s why there are fewer and fewer research papers and they’ll continue to decrease.
>>22 Your information is out of date too. The University of Tokyo’s Science 2nd year was ranked higher than Tohoku University’s Medical School, and Tokyo University’s Science 2nd year was ranked higher than Osaka University’s Medical School.
>>22 This must be the reason In the past, the smartest people went to science departments and became researchers Nowadays, the smartest people are all medical students and doctors who deal with old people lol (´・ω・`).
The road is incredibly long English, German Memorize it all First do this little research and go to a conference Erase the tape lines to paste the graphs Erase the tape lines~? I mean, I’d do that much, but I’d be forced to follow those instructions 35,000 times I can understand Obou-chan’s feelings I guess she’s just trying to get ahead by being sexy.
Kyushu University and Osaka University are two former imperial universities that have not produced any Nobel Prizes. I think there is a problem after all.
>>36 First of all, the Nobel Prize is an individual award, so it doesn’t indicate the level of the university one graduated from. Yamanaka Shinya’s alma mater, Kobe University, has a low academic ranking. Yamamoto himself got his doctorate from the former Osaka City University. Osaka City University is superior in medicine.
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