• Researchers work in the lab of Nobel Prize laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Yokohama campus on Oct. 4. Sentiment is grim among many young Japanese with doctorates as few long-term research positions are available. | KYODO
    Researchers work in the lab of Nobel Prize laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Yokohama campus on Oct. 4. Sentiment is grim among many young Japanese with doctorates as few long-term research positions are available. | KYODO
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On Oct. 3, Japan celebrated the news that Tokyo-based microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi had won a Nobel Prize. It was the third consecutive year for a Japanese scientist to win a Nobel.

Yet the achievements of Ohsumi, 71, and other recent laureates seem increasingly out of reach for young Japanese researchers struggling to secure jobs amid a shift in focus toward practical research and a glut of people with doctorates.

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