Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who marked one month in office on Friday, has incurred the ire of the country's academia by rejecting six out of 105 scholars nominated to a government advisory panel.
All six had been openly critical of controversial security and anti-conspiracy policies pushed for by Mr Suga's predecessor Shinzo Abe, and their exclusion to the Science Council of Japan is seen as a high-handed, vindictive act by the new Prime Minister.
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