Take a closer look at physics in Japan, from the best recent research to career opportunities and the changing funding and policy landscape.
Revitalizing Japanese physics
Matin Durrani examines Japan's efforts to make its research more internationally competitive
What next for Fukushima?
With local residents still unable to return to their homes near the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear-power plant, Bruce Drinkwater and Rob Malkin describe their tra...
Physics World journalists visit Japan
Reforming Japanese science
How the Earth-Life Science Institute is shaking up the Japanese system
Giving scientific advice in Japan
Tateo Arimoto discusses how the Japanese government can best use scientific advice
RIKEN celebrates its centenary
How RIKEN's discovery of element 113 led to it being named "nihonium"
A decade of success
How the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe became a leading physics institute in Japan
What’s next for superconductivity research?
A chat with Hideo Hosono from the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Why money is tight for Japanese science
In conversation with Yasuhiro Iye, executive director of Japan's leading funding agency
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News from Japanese physics
How IOP Publishing supports physicists in Japan
Elaine Tham explains how IOP Publishing is building on its presence in Japan with many new activities
Japan’s SuperKEKB set for first particle collisions
Revamped accelerator will soon be smashing electrons and positrons together
Open-access quantum computer goes live in Japan
Flash Physics: need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Japan pushes ahead for Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino detector
Next-generation Neutrino Science Organization to advocate project to government
How to eavesdrop on underwater conversations
Thin acoustic metasurface helps sound to cross from water to air
Lightning creates radioactive isotopes
Radiation from delayed nuclear decays spotted in thunderstorm
Research papers from Japan
Masaki Uchida and Masashi Kawasaki 2018 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 143001
Read on IOPscienceHitomi Yagyu et al 2017 Flex. Print. Electron. 2 014003
Read on IOPscienceMasahito Yamazaki 2018 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 51 053002
Read on IOPscienceZeyang Liu et al 2018 Biomed. Mater. 13 035004
Read on IOPscienceChie Toramatsu et al 2018 Biomed. Phys. Eng. Express 4 035001
Read on IOPscienceHiroyuki Kanda et al 2017 J. Neural Eng. 14 056013
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