Nobel laureate raps PM Suga over rejection of scholars for advisory body

Nobel physics prize winner Toshihide Masukawa and some other Japanese scholars criticized Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday over the rejection of some academics for a government advisory body.Suga's recent rejection of six out of 105 nominees for the Science Council of Japan "destroys democracy and constitutionalism" and "is an insult to academia," said the Association of Scholars Opposed to the Security-related Laws, of which Masukawa is a member.The group condemned Suga's refusal to approve the scholars as "an apparently illegal act." The six had been critical of former Prime Min…READ FULL ARTICLE