> Initially, they didn’t have much luck. No other researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University, where Prof. Aono worked, would be taking over his record-keeping, Hiroko Nishino, a university spokeswoman, wrote in an email.<p>I’m surprised that there was lackluster response. For this kind of honor, you would think that there would be a flood of responses. I am attributing it to bad marketing.
Part of me also thinks: yes, but is there any money/compensation attached to this? Honor, sadly, doesn't pay for grad students or soft money researchers.
> Honor, sadly, doesn't pay for grad students<p>Are you kidding? Grad students are well known to receive trivial monetary pay. <i>Most of their pay</i> is in honor.
Not usually how things work in Japanese culture