In a rare move, the University of Tokyo, Komaba, locally known as Todai, has reported that one of its students plagiarized a term report using information from the Internet. It was the first time the prestigious school has openly reported a cheating student.
The university found out that 75 percent of the report was copied from the Internet and took punitive measures, it said in a statement uploaded to its website Tuesday.
"It was meant as a warning message, especially for our students. We wanted to take a strong preventive measure, so that such plagiarism won't reoccur," said a public relations officer at Todai, adding that it has been warning students about such cheating for years.