Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Shouldn't be a surprise Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:05:09 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <414D0575.3070506@yahoo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de d/QV3UfC1o5xFu/8cV3oowRNh08CVRZzwNLRHSewH88ktTfOPi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18589 cc wrote: > "John W." wrote in message > > >> Well, she's really freakin' smart, which is why she's personally so >> successful. But while she's always been smart, > > > I have no doubt about that. But I meant many of your researchers are > not products of the US education system. Like you wife, they were > educated abroad, many of them even arrive in the US when they are > already confirmed specialists in their fields. > Actually she was educated at US colleges. Her primary education was in Japan, though; maybe that's a perfect mix. >> But it's not just her, actually. A lot of my Japanese friends that >> do research in the US like the environment here much more than in >> Japan. > > > A lot of French researchers end up migrating to the US, as they have > no other choice (no other way to get a financial support). > I've heard that's true in Japan as well. IIRC until a short while ago Japanese companies didn't give to university researchers like in the US. John W.