While my intention to work in Okinawa is to make an effort toward the possibility of doing a world class research within five years from the zero level without the use of my previous research resource accumulated in Kyoto University, it did not seem to be understood at all by younger Japanese professors. I felt that I was considered to be the luckiest or greedy boss to have the two labs in Kyoto and Okinawa by influential younger generation researchers in Japan. Therefore this professor K in Tokyo X University called me like a criminal to apply for the research fund for JSPS to continue on chromosome condensation and segregation. He even took a mission to reject my grant application on condensin as the head of the JSPS committee by asking many amazingly ignorant questions.
I feel very sad and also angry. As my effort in Okinawa was considered by such a distorted view.
To be honest, who else in Japan could do the level of our work accomplished in Okinawa?
I wish at least a few Japanese later sometime will take a look at me as a patriotic researcher.
a postscript
The fund for the research in Okinawa comes from the Cabinet Office of Japan then to the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation. The fund is not a competitive one, a part of the operating expense of the OIST PC.