Japan's New Science Adviser Wants to Shake Up Higher Education

By DAVID MCNEILL

Tokyo

Kiyoshi Kurokawa doesn't mince words. As the Japanese government's first handpicked science adviser, he wants to completely overhaul the country's higher-education system. And he believes he has the passion and -- at a sprightly 70 -- the energy to do it.

"I stay young because I am so angry," he said recently in his...