The government said Thursday it was prepared to provide a host of safety measures in return for Nagasaki authorities backing plans for a new biosafety laboratory in the prefecture.
The biosafety level 4 laboratory at Nagasaki University would be constructed and operated to the most stringent biosafety standards on a four-level scale, it said.
BSL-4 labs allow research into highly contagious pathogens, such as the Ebola virus, that cause disease with a high risk of death and lack effective treatments.