TOKYO Japan's Education Ministry plans to launch "superscience high schools" next year to nurture top students in the science and engineering fields, a report said recently. The ministry will designate some existing schools as superscience high schools, enabling them to introduce high-level curriculums regardless of the government's teaching guidelines, AFP quoted the Sankei Shimbun as saying. Japanese children's declining interest in science has alarmed the government, which believes the trend could undermine Japan's reputation as a high-technology country. The superschools would invite first-class researchers to take classes and give lectures, the daily said.