[Video]Inoue talks to President Kajita in pursuit of “independence from the country’s academic conference” : Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web



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Shinji Inoue, Minister of Science and Technology, announced on the 26th that he had a meeting with Takaaki Kajita, president of the Academic Conference of Japan, and requested that the conference be considered separate from national institutions. (Mochizuki Iko)

◆ Changing the problems and pressing next to the conference

Japan Academic Conference

Japan Academic Conference

After a private meeting, he responded to the press. The project team of the Liberal Democratic Party is considering what the organization should look like with a view to privatizing the conference, while changing the issue of refusing to appoint new members, but the government has further increased pressure on the conference side.


Mr. Inoue said that the ideal way for academic conferences to be independent from the government was “There are discussions in the Diet and there are various voices of the people. I asked them to consider it as one of the options.”

◆ Laundering of candidate students for membership

According to the secretariat of the academic conference, the conference side explained that the historical background is different from the Western-style bottom-up organization of scientists. After that, he said, “I want to play the role of a national academy.”

In a press conference prior to this, Mr. Kajita said that a university student who was a student of a member candidate who was denied appointment was being harassed. Said.


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