The communique from the G7 Science and Technology Ministers’ Meeting, held in Sendai, Japan, last May, expressed support for “immediate open and public access to government-funded scholarly publications and scientific data” (see go.nature.com/3xurjzw). Japan has however been slow to embrace open science. A government-backed preprint server, Jxiv, was established in 2022 (Nature https://doi.org/jjz5; 2022), but as of 1 May had only 326 manuscripts publicly available.
Competing Interests
K.I. reported receiving grants from The Nippon Foundation – Osaka University Project for Infectious Disease Prevention, the Inamori Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 23K12845); also received honoraria from Mimir, Inc. solely outside the submitted work. He is also a member of the Editorial Policy Advisory Group of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and an advisor to the Shizuoka Prefectural University Corporation.
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