2023-02-25 20:11 Last Update: 20:49
The British TechHQ website published a commentary on the 23rd entitled “Asian tigers are no longer beautiful – Japanese scientists are about to leave”, describing a large number of scientists looking for opportunities in China and affecting research Japanese scientific. Japan must create a good working environment to maintain or improve its international reputation for research status.
The article points to the fact that in the last 20 years, Japanese scientists have maintained a “deadly” attitude, lack of enthusiasm for their work, and often complain about too little budget or no time for research. In contrast, a Japanese scientist remembers attending a conference in the United States in 2019 and seeing a Chinese professor trying to convince a group of Chinese students to come to his center for research. At that time, the Japanese scientist was looking for a job everywhere, hoping to get the opportunity to become an associate professor at a Japanese university. However, for many years, he has not been able to find vacancies. Later, by chance, he got a Chinese teaching chair. So, in 2022, he chose to go to the local area to look for opportunities.
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The Japanese scientist said that Chinese scientists are highly motivated and rarely miss the opportunity to publish research articles. Compared to Japan, Chinese society respects science and academics more. Another scientist believes that the significant difference between Japanese and Chinese laboratories lies in communication, and he also experienced a difficult job search before he had to move to China, and finally got a salary that was five times higher than five years ago.
Japanese scientists say funding is not the only problem. In China, researchers appear to communicate with lab peers and supervisors, while Japan’s rigid hierarchy makes socializing difficult. It may be the exchange of Chinese laboratories, rather than funding, that increases their output. This is the opinion of Akatsuki Kokami, chairman of the Sasakawa Peace Institute and an expert on Chinese scientific methods. Organizational arrangements are key, he said. China’s university reforms have given university managers considerable autonomy. This gives young scientists the freedom to research, with the opportunity to win grants and promotions.
It is currently unknown whether Japan’s scientific cooperation with the United States and the Netherlands will affect the speed of Japan-China translocation. Over the past 20 years, China and Japan have traded places in terms of scientific influence. China has also overtaken the United States as the country that publishes the most research papers globally, while Japan has fallen to 12th place. Japan’s fall in the ranking is said to be the result of a policy of “pick and focus”, investing in only a few areas of research due to limited funding. This means that budgets are concentrated on certain universities. It is very difficult to get permanent jobs, and government subsidies are either cut or too small.
According to data from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the number of people receiving doctoral degrees in Japan peaked at 17,860 in fiscal year 2006, and has hovered around 15,000 in recent years. In China, however, the number of people receiving Ph.D. from 26,506 in the 2005 financial year to 65,585 in the 2020 financial year.
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