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Technology: Japan claims lead on Josephson chips
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Japan drops satellite programme under US pressure
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Japan’s particle collider bites the dust
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Creators not copycats / Review of ‘ The Formation of Science in Japan’ by James R. Bartholomew
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Technology: Japan puts its money into two-faced materials
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Nuclear power goes to the polls: On Sunday Japanese votersgo to the polls. For the first time in more than 30 years, the country’sdomination by one party is threatened. The opposition parties have promisedto end the nuclear industry’s cosy relationship wi
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Technology: Japan flexes its artificial muscles in the search for new treatments
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Technology: Japan begins international project for the factory of the future
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Technology: Japanese memory chips win another round
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Who’s coming to Mars?: The US, the Soviet Union and Europe are poised to explore Mars during the 1990s. But Japanese researchers are worried that their country remains uncommitted
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Technology: Japan puts neural computers to work in their own write
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Japan drags its feet on project to map the human genome
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