في ثمانينيات القرن العشرين أدركت اليابان الارتباط القوي بين النفوذ السياسي والعلم. وآنذاك ألقى
Japan recognized the link between political clout and science in the 1980’s. Japan’s chief industrialist, Akio Morita, the chairman of Sony, and the right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara gave a series of speeches that were collected and published in 1986 as a book called