Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's rejection of six academics from sitting on a government advisory panel goes against the aim of past reviews that called for the body's "comprehensive and overarching" role, several experts who were involved in the process said Sunday.The experts said they did not anticipate the government's intervention in picking members for the Science Council of Japan, raising questions about the validity of Suga's latest decision despite his insistence that he took into consideration the outcome of expert discussions in 2003 and 2015 on the council's role."We thought it w…READ FULL ARTICLE
