By KAZUYUKI ITO/ Staff Writer
July 9, 2021 at 16:20 JST
Masanori Okada, right, a professor of administrative law at Tokyo's Waseda University, and Ryuichi Ozawa, a professor of constitutional law at Jikei University, hold a news conference July 8 to explain their request for a review of a decision to not disclose government documents. (Kazuyuki Ito)
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