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Science 7 September 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5536, p. 1743
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5536.1743a
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JAPAN BUDGET:
Winners, Losers Abound As Reforms Kick In

Dennis Normile

TOKYO--Last week, Japanese ministries unveiled their budget requests for the next fiscal year. Although overall spending for science will rise about 5%, the increases are concentrated in a handful of areas deemed economically important and offset by cuts in other fields. The crunch is especially severe for research organizations that are part of a special class of public corporations that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has called wasteful and in need of major restructuring.

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