THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 14, 2022 at 17:45 JST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters after holding talks with Takaaki Kajita, president of the Science Council of Japan, at the prime minister’s office in central Tokyo on Jan. 13. (Koichi Ueda)
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida moved to make peace with the Science Council of Japan, which is still fuming over the previous administration’s decision to block the entry of six scholars to the august body who had fallen afoul of the government by taking issue with official policy. [Read More]
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