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.
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