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Japanese media is buzzing about reports that a prestigious Tokyo medical school systematically lowered women's scores on an admission test in order to admit fewer women. Starting in about 2011, Tokyo ...

A doctor discusses MRIs with a patient in a hospital. A medical school in Japan has agreed to admit more than 60 women after they were rejected by a discriminatory policy reportedly designed to weed ...

On Tuesday, Tokyo Medical University apologized after it admitted that it had manipulated entrance exam scores for over a decade to limit the number of female students it would admit. The prestigious ...

Japan's Juntendo University admitted to setting lower pass marks for men in their entrance exams. Officials said it was because female applicants tended to perform better in the interview part of the ...

TOKYO—Tokyo Medical University is looking to investigate an allegation that the school automatically lowered the entrance-exam results of female applicants for years to ensure that most of the ...

TOKYO — Tokyo Medical University is looking to investigate an allegation that the school automatically lowered the entrance-exam results of female applicants for years to ensure that most of the ...

Around 2006, executives at Tokyo Medical University saw what they thought was a problem with their applicants: Too many women. At the time, a rapidly aging population was helping propel a doctor ...