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Science 3 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5433, pp. 1521 - 1524
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5433.1521
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JAPAN:
Japanese Jump on Postdoc Bandwagon

Dennis Normile

Overcoming the stigma of temporary workers, postdocs have become an integral part of science in Japan, largely through a 1995 initiative under which the government raised the total number of postdocs to 10,000 by this year. But there's a price to pay for their popularity: The new talent pool is beginning to face a problem plaguing the nearly 40,000 postdoctoral fellows in the century-old U.S. system, namely a dearth of academic jobs.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)