by Elio — This blog cel­e­brates the Small Things and, by im­pli­ca­tion, those who rel­ish their study. Thus, I think now of our col­leagues who worked or have trained in Japan. One way to ex­press our sol­i­dar­ity is to men­tion the names of sci­en­tists who ex­em­plify the great achieve­ments of Japan­ese mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy, ear­lier…