Japan Xinhua China Press: Nobel blowout or as a

In new network on October 8 (Xinhua) Japan Xinhua China press 8, the article said, with the year 2015 Nobel Prize winner is announced in succession, Japanese scientists are on the list, to the world fully demonstrated the research strength in Asia. Over the past 15 years, the average annual Japanese people get a prize, showing a blowout trend. Now have a look back to Japan's status quo, research areas are faced with the grim situation, the deterioration of the environment, not leave no successor.
Since entering the 21st century, Japan to keep a natural science Nobel Prize "won" state, and in physics, chemistry and medicine field has captures, the total number of award-winning reached 16 people, is second only to the United States Natural Science Nobel Prize winning the.
However, in such a good situation, the Japanese people from all walks of life behind the smile, but it seems to hide the heart. Because of the high standards and strict requirements of the promise of the award, the results of the scientists to verify the general survey of twenty or thirty years. That is to say, now get the prize, is often the result of scientists twenty or thirty years ago recognition. And look at the situation in Japan, research in the field is facing the deterioration of the environment, lean, successors of the grim situation, the Japanese media even issued Shengshi Weiyan: "twenty or thirty years later, the Japanese figure may disappear in the Nobel Prize on the podium, think of it will make people anxious."

The winners, Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize, as the award on the basis of the achievements in scientific research, mostly in the 30 to 40 years old presented or start. This said that next year's strong youth period, is a scientific research workers' golden age". The reserve and training of young researchers is a prerequisite for the sprint.
And Japan Wenbu science Province, the latest statistics show that Japan university natural science professional doctoral enrollment rate, is showing a rapidly declining trend. In 1993 the rate was 20, but in 2013 15.2% years after the has been reduced to 8.9%, nearly half of the. Under the background of Japan's economic downturn, a large number of scientific research is not stable, which is the main reason.
From the 80's to the 90's in the first half of the year, Japan's scientific research funding to 20% to 10% of the annual rate of rapid growth, but from the beginning of 2000, Japan's scientific research funding has no obvious growth. Last year, won the Nobel Prize in physics, a Japanese American scientists Shuji Nakamura, the Japanese research environment proposed strongly criticized. He said, "in Japan, researchers become like a salesman". He also criticized the lack of freedom in the field of academic research in Japan, asked the Japanese to improve the research environment.
The ideal, also can not be separated from reality. Increasingly deteriorating environment for scientific research, so that a lot of enthusiasm and talent of Japanese young people, in the direction of scientific research intersection hesitate. Japan is losing "scientific reserve echelon formation".
And then from the international competition, the Japanese are in the more challenger. Chinese pharmacologist Tu won the first prize of natural science, Japan triggered a public hot. The Asahi Shimbun reports will focus on "China's home grown", quite representative reflects the rapid development of Japanese Society of China's scientific attention, many of them "vigilant". In fact, not only is China, the world's other countries are also more active in scientific research activities, which makes Japan must face more intense competition.
Japan academic institutions statistics show that the number of annual scientific research papers in Japan about 70000, nearly 10 years, the basic fixed. Japan Wenbu science Province, pointed out that as an important index of the "cited" and Japan in various fields of the world rankings are in decline. In addition, the British times higher education supplement released the latest "2015-2016 global best colleges" rankings, the University of Tokyo have already lost "Asia's first" throne, ranking fell to 43.
Of course, even in the face of various problems in the field of science and technology, Japan is still thin dead camel than ma. The Japanese government also hopes to borrow the promise of the boom, to promote the solution to the problem. However, the skin does not exist maojiangyanfu. The competition of scientific and technological level, in the final analysis, the competition of the national comprehensive strength. Japan if unable to concentrate efforts on economic development, enhance the strength, I'm afraid Nobel blowout will eventually become "the story of the past, Japan will also be completely reduced to second rate nation. (Jiang Feng)
Source: China News Network