Tokyo's education bureau announced Friday it found more than 130 cases of scoring errors on high school entrance examinations for 2014 that resulted in erroneous rejections at four schools.
According to an inquiry conducted at 216 public high schools, the bureau found 139 errors in tests conducted at 48 schools for the 2014 school year.
"We found out on April 15 there were scoring errors at many high schools and that four successful applicants were rejected due to the errors," said Masashi Tsutsumi, head of the department in charge of education at public schools.