Japan"s Nobel ploy riles Swedes
ノーベル賞を受けるため
スウェーデンカロ−ルリンスカ研究所がある大学に情報事務室を開設して
ノベル受賞者と staff にお金を支払って ロビーして あった.
Despite such criticisms, the country has followed up this pledge energetically. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science set up an "information office" at Stockholm"s Karolinska Institute, Sweden"s medical university.
Its function seems a blatant attempt to lobby Nobel medical committee members about the merits of Japanese researchers.
In a world of the quiet academic, such directness is unprecedented. But the Japanese have followed up their information office with an attempt to pay for a group of Nobel laureates and Nobel Foundation staff to come to Japan to celebrate the prizes" centenary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/dec/16/japan.internationaleducationnews
