The port city of Kobe, arguably best known for its wagyu beef and the football team where Spanish star Andres Iniesta now plies his trade, is now leading Japan's push in biomedical research and clean energy.
The city has emerged from the ruins of a huge earthquake in 1995 to build Japan's largest biomedical innovation cluster, overseen by Dr Tasuku Honjo, the newly minted Nobel laureate for physiology or medicine.
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