The University of Tokyo has found at least 43 past research papers from its bioscience laboratory containing falsifications and fabrications, a source said Thursday.
In an interim in-house report, the nation's top university has found that 43 of 165 papers written between 1996 to 2011 that were supervised by Shigeaki Kato, a former professor at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, should be retracted. Many of his research projects had been funded by the government.
The university, known in Japan as Todai, had been investigating the case based on information provided from outside. The fabrications included turning an image in the reverse direction and using it as a different image from the original, the report said without elaborating on what specific research outcomes may have been falsified.