Japan's stimulus package showers science with cash

Three years ago, the picture for research funding in Japan looked bleak. As part of efforts to slash the national budget by A 3 trillion , the government, led by the Democratic Party of Japan, had proposed sweeping cuts to science, sparking protests from the country's most eminent researchers.

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