学術会議、独立も選択肢　自民ＰＴが組織見直し提言―井上科技相

　日本学術会議の在り方に関する自民党プロジェクトチーム（ＰＴ）座長の塩谷立元文部科学相らは１１日、井上信治科学技術担当相と内閣府で面会し、２０２３年９月をめどに政府から「独立した新たな組織」とすることを柱とする提言書を手渡した。井上氏は、学術会議側が年内に提示する自己改革案に言及しつつ、「国の機関から切り離すことも含め、望ましい形態を（学術会議に）検討いただきたい」と強調した。（2020/12/11-10:58）

Japanese science and technology policy minister Shinji Inoue said Friday he hopes that the Science Council of Japan will pursue what would be its desirable form, including options such as separating itself from the government.
   The minister made the comment as he touched on an SCJ reform plan set to be presented by the council itself by the end of the year, during a meeting with members of a project team of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party that is discussing the council's reform.
   Former Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Ryu Shionoya, chief of the project team, and other members visited Inoue at the Cabinet Office Friday morning to hand him their written SCJ reform proposals featuring the council's restart as "a new independent organization" by around September 2023.
   The SCJ is a government body representing the nation's academic community.
   The proposals also call on the government to come up with a specific institutional design for the revamped SCJ within a year.