THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 10, 2022 at 16:46 JST
Maya Hasegawa speaks with reporters Sept. 9 after the Tokyo District Court ruled on discriminatory entrance exam practices at Tokyo Medical University. (Kyota Tanaka)
A court ordered Tokyo Medical University to pay damages totaling 18.26 million yen ($128,000) to 27 women who sat for entrance exams between 2006 and 2018 but were denied a place due to a long-standing practice of rigging test scores to favor male candidates. [Read More]
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