对于一个有如此经济实力的国家来说,日本在获得诺贝尔奖方面的纪录糟透了。过去20年来,日本仅获得三项诺贝尔科学奖,而美国获得了77项。1987年获诺贝尔生理学和医学奖的利根川进,是因他在瑞士从事的人类免疫系统的研究和在麻省理工学院的工作而获奖的。他认为并非日本的科研人员缺少创造性,而是日本的研究院和大学的研究 For a country with such an economic power, Japan’s record in winning the Nobel Prize is terrible. In the past two decades, Japan has won only three Nobel Prizes in science, while the United States has won 77. Tengagawa, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1987, was awarded for his work on the human immune system in Switzerland and his work at MIT. He believes that not a lack of creativity of Japanese researchers, but Japan’s research institutes and universities