Japan's top researchers are this week putting the finishing touches to their applications to run a World Premier International Research Center, the grandiose title of the latest government effort to boost Japanese scientists' links with their colleagues overseas. There will be some five centres, each of which will receive base funding of between US$4 million and $16 million for up to ten years. They are the latest in a long line of efforts to make Japanese research more flexible and international in outlook.
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