Japan is suffering “brain drain” when competing for researchers. Since the treatment of researchers is inferior to the US, Europe, and China, they have focused on young researchers with relatively low salaries. However, the success rate remains at about 50%.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/851869323fa27861ddb66b869ba890716c6c8419
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I’m a STEM PhD student here and I’m gonna get the fuck out of here the moment I get my diploma! Even a JP citizen is like that, no way they can bring in Western researchers.
Full Disclosure: I am not an eggheaded boffin.
Do many boffins and eggheads with PhDs do whatever it is that they do overseas for a couple of decades, before returning here to work?
If not, then could they not put their impressive craniums together and perhaps research why the newkids prefer it elsewhere, instead of here?
I mean, if it’s like a semi-permeable membrane, then surely there would be an experimental method that could be carried out to determine the properties of the solutions on each side the the membrane, and then formulate a hypothesis as to how equilibrium, or even a flow reversal, could be achieved?
But it’s money and QoL isn’t it.
Problem is having to learn Japanese just to work in Japan.
50% of the time, it works every time
Japanese research is in a terrible state and I blame the same group of people I blame for most of Japan’s issues: those fucking men over 45-50 who haven’t heard contradiction in decades, play political games when it comes to funding, thump their chests at domestic conferences and are terrified to go to serious international conferences where they might experience actual push back.
I’ve seen things deteriorating since 2012, and thank the lord I’m now in a double affiliation with a Spanish university so I’m privileged and I don’t have to deal with this bullshit. The spanish system is underfunded and sucks in many regards, but professors, scientists, and students in Spain absolutely trounce their Japanese equivalents.
It’s a shame because there’s obviously talent in Japan, and funding even. But younger generations are terribly passive, and that clique of gyoza smelling, nomihoudai going, soapland squatting, wet-tissue shower taking, priority seats not standing, and terrible suits wearing >>>MEN<<< are fucking it up for everyone.
I looked into phd positions. The positions i saw offered around the same as minimumwage in my country, while asking a LOT. A phd here would see me paid more than double while also still giving me a healthy work-life balance.
So unless you are someone with low standards, yeah japan is getting skipped over
Wild to see this article pop up. Just met my friend who is doing research for Tokyo University from Mexico and he said they offered him to do another study but he has to decline. He said they are draining him for everything and offer hardly anything in return, monetary or research wise. Sad to hear.
With such working conditions salaries and visa policies it is as expected…
As an American who keeps seeing Japanese news popping up in my feed, I can tell you I’ve run into fellow citizens interested in immigrating to Japan.
I think you call them “otaku”?
/Still not sure why Japan’s news keeps popping up in my feed. I enjoy yugioh but that’s about it.
//And from what has popped up, Japan doesn’t seem very welcoming to foreigners at the moment.
///Not that I have much room to talkz
My friend is japanese and a senior researcher in Japan. He spent half his life living and working abroad, and now he does not get on with his Japanese colleagues – he has been abroad (at a very prestigious science institution mind) too long and is therefore “tainted” (in his words). Most of his friends are now foreign, he got his job because it’s a foreigner-facing role, and he eventually transferred to a more foreigner-friendly institution as there was no chance he could advance in a purely japanese setting. Prejudice nearly killed his career.