Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies
TOKYO, Japan - Leading Japanese theoretical physicist Koji Fushimi (in file photo taken 1988) dies of old age at a hospital in Yokohama on May 8, his family said. He was 98. Fushimi headed, from 1977 to 1982, the Science Council of Japan, a Cabinet Office organization that is given the task to promote and enhance science, and to have science reflect and permeate into administration, industry and people's lives. He was elected to the House of Councillors in the 1983 upper house election. He retired from the Diet after serving out a six-year term. (Kyodo)
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