Physicist Akito Arima, former president of Tokyo University and currently Japan's education minister, is to take up an additional post as director- general of the Science and Technology Agency (STA). The appointment of Arima, an outspoken supporter of reforms in the organization of Japanese science, is seen by many as likely to increase the success of the merger of STA and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho) in two years' time (see Nature 390,327; 1997).
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