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Biotechnology is now one of the three main pillars of Japan’s advanced technologies (the others being the electrotechnologies and new materials). Since the introduction of biotechnology in 1973, Japan has made remarkable progress in this field. New technologies such as gene recombination, cell fusion and immobilized enzymes have broadened Japan’s fermentation-based industries. Pharmaceutical, chemical, food and seedling companies launched aggressive research programmes to develop new production technologies and to enter new business areas (such as plant breeding, livestock and fish farming). Indeed, a biofever led companies from many, very different sectors to enter the field with high expectations (many of Japan’s steel companies, for example).
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Salusbury, T. (1994). The legal and regulatory framework for biotechnology in Japan. In: Hambleton, P., Melling, J., Salusbury, T.T. (eds) Biosafety in Industrial Biotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1352-6_4
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