Faculty members in conflict with president of Japanese university

摘要

Tension has been high at one of Japan's top research universities. A number of faculty members at Tohoku University in Sendai have called for a fuller investigation into four papers by the university's president, materials scientist Akihisa Inoue, and have expressed dissatisfaction with the university's handling of the matter. There is no reason to conclude that there was any kind of manipulation of data by Inoue, and the accusations over his work are unproven.