Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent
Japan is the latest nation hoping to tempt disgruntled US researchers alarmed by the Trump administration's hostile attitude to academia to relocate to the Land of the Rising Sun.
The Japanese government aims to create an elite research environment, and has detailed a ¥100 billion ($693 million) package to attract researchers from abroad, including those from America who may have seen their budgets slashed or who fear a clampdown on their academic freedom.
American science put on starvation diet...
Read more at theregister.com