A medical school in Japan is under fire for allegedly lowering all female applicants’ exam scores in order to reduce the number of women doctors. The exam rigging is reported to have been going on ...

The Education Minister of Japan has condemned gender discrimination following reports that Tokyo Medical University allegedly rigged entrance exam scores to lower the ratio of female students. “We are ...

“I beat my wife again, because she gave birth to a girl.” These are the words my grandfather wrote in his diary on the day my mother was born in 1958. He was angry because he now had two daughters but ...

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 — A Japanese medical university has systematically discriminated against female applicants because women tend to quit as doctors after starting families, causing hospital staffing shortages, ...

Tokyo Medical University, one of Japan’s top medical schools, spent years purposely rigging women’s entrance exam scores in order to ensure that some of them couldn’t attend the prestigious school.

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 ...