Opposition grills PM Suga over science council, virus response

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday faced questions from a major opposition party over issues ranging from his rejection of scholars to an advisory body to the government's coronavirus response.In their first face-off in parliament since Suga took office in mid-September, Yukio Edano, the head of the largest opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, criticized the prime minister's decision to keep six government critics off the Science Council of Japan as "illegal" and asked him to clearly explain the reasons behind the decision.Suga, however, declined to give details on w…READ FULL ARTICLE