Japan falls behind on courting US scholars hit by Trump budget cuts

Funding and other obstacles remain even as Europe, China roll out red carpet

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Kei Sato, a virologist at the University of Tokyo, hopes to bring U.S. researchers into his lab. (Courtesy of Kei Sato)

SATOSHI KAWAHARA

TOKYO -- Some in Japan are exploring ways to lure U.S.-based scholars facing employment uncertainty under the Trump administration, though their efforts so far are falling short of state-backed recruitment campaigns by European countries and China.

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