(Agence France-Presse) A Tokyo medical school for years altered the admission test results of female applicants to keep the number of women in the student body low, a Japanese newspaper reported on Thursday (Aug 2).
The Yomiuri Shimbun daily said the manipulation came to light while prosecutors were investigating a separate scandal in which the Tokyo Medical University is accused of illicitly admitting the son of an Education Ministry bureaucrat.
"Following the report this morning, we asked a law firm to launch an internal investigation into the reported issue," Mr Fumio Azuma, a spokesman for the university told AFP, adding that it hopes to announce the result of the probe later this month.
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