When Japan's only living Nobel prize-winning physicist, Leo Esaki, returned to become president of Tsukuba University in 1992 after 30 years with IBM Research in the US, he said his "main goal was to create collaboration and exchange between the universities and the many companies and research institutes in Tsukuba Science City". Last June, in pursuit of this goal, Esaki announced the Tsukuba
... [Show full abstract] Advanced Research Alliance (TARA) which, he hoped, would be jointly funded by the university and many of the 139 private research labs in Tsukuba.