Looking at Japan lately, I wonder what these "Nobel Prizes in Science" actually do for a country...

To be honest, I really don't know.. While their GDP has been shrinking for 30 years, it seems they have won so many Nobel Prizes that they are truly not envious of the West..
Why don't we have any Nobel Prizes in science? What would we have to do to win a Nobel Prize in science?
I believe we also need to question the Korean attitude of treating the Nobel Prize as an end in itself, rather than a means for industrial and economic development.
Instead, we should be asking the opposite question: why a country that swept up Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
has become a country that makes small change by manufacturing materials, components, and equipment for the semiconductor industry—the pinnacle of modern physics and chemistry application...