Former President Yamagoku argued against the Prime Minister’s response : Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web

At the time, he was chairman of Prime Minister Yoshii Suga’s response to the Diet, and said the reason for refusing to nominate six member candidates was that there was no prior coordination of personnel matters between the government and the Academy of Science of Japan.Juichi Yamagoku（Juichi Yamagiwa）・ The former president of Kyoto University responded to an interview with Tokyo Shimbun, saying, “The adjustment in advance is to talk and coordinate with each other. I can meet in person (with Undersecretary of State Kazuhiro Sugita) or talk on the phone. However, it was rejected through the secretary general. There was no invitation from the official residence to discuss it. ” Successive executives like Takashi Onishi and the former president have also denied the adjustments, and Suga’s remarks have been criticized one after another. (Mochizuki Iko)

◆ The official residence ordered as a “rumor”, Mr. Yamagoku “I do not want to be afraid”

At the House Budget Committee on the 5th, Mr. Suga said, “Before the formal list was presented, there was some coordination between the Cabinet Office secretariat and the chair of the meeting.” This time (there was a refusal to name), the pre-recommendation adjustments did not work, and as a result some people did not show up for the appointment. “Regarding the legal status of the candidates’ recommendations at the meeting, he said,” We will judge as a designated person respecting the recommendations, “he said, acknowledging that the Prime Minister has discretion.

In response, Mr. Yamagoku noted: “I believe that the general secretary (of the Japan Academic Conference Secretariat of the Cabinet Office) is showing Mr. Sugita a list of 105 (recommended) people before sending it.” In addition to that, “I heard that something was said (from the official residence side), but it was not said directly. If the official residence side places a request as ‘rumor’ and this changes the composition of the list, the official residence will be “I don’t say anything. It is something that the meeting did voluntarily. “I don’t want to do that,” he criticized the will of the official residence to intervene in the selection of members.

◆ Mr. Onishi also said, “I have never adjusted in advance.”

On the other hand, Mr. Onishi, whom Mr. Suga noted that “a certain amount of adjustment was made,” responded to the interview and said: “I explained in advance to the official residence, but in response to the request , I adjusted something in advance, including the selection process. “I never have,” he said. “The official residency was reluctant on the 2016 supplemental staffing matters, but until the selection committee discussed and decided that the application of the official residence was unacceptable. “I don’t think so.”

Another executive who was a member of the selection committee at the same time as Mr. Onishi said: “The prime minister says that the coordination was between the president and the ‘Cabinet Office secretariat’, but it is false. The president and the secretariat is in charge of the staff. It is impossible to have a substantial exchange between them, and the other party is Undersecretary Sugita. To keep Mr. Sugita out of the mouth, he gives an explanation with a sigh like “the secretariat, etc.”