Japan¥"s Nobel ploy riles Swedes
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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/dec/16/japan.internationaleducationnews