The government has backed down from its unpopular proposal — but has made a new one.
Seigo Hirowatari speaking at the Japan National Press Club in February in support of the Science Council of Japan.Ructions between Japan’s government and the country’s influential science council are causing concern among researchers. The government backed away from its plans to reform the council’s constitution and its process for appointing members, after the council and many Japanese researchers objected to them.
Tensions first emerged in 2020, when then prime minister Yoshihide Suga rejected 6 of the 105 candidates nominated by the SCJ. In the past, members have made recommendations to the government for new appointments to the council, with the government’s approval being seen as a a formality. The SCJ renews half of its membership every three years.
“This amendment may damage the independence of the Science Council of Japan,” wrote seven Japanese Nobel laureates and one Fields Medal winner in a statement released in February. “We earnestly hope that the government will reconsider its hasty amendment of the law.” Yuko Harayama, an associate SCJ member and co-chair of the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Science, says it became an issue of trust. “I think the decision to postpone this proposal is the right signal that the government and council are moving in the direction of rebuilding trust.”
However, SCJ members remain nervous about the implications of such a change. “We will not limit ourselves to the issue of whether the Science Council of Japan should remain a government organization,” SCJ president Takaaki Kajita said in a statement in late April.
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