A high school in the city of Iga, Mie Prefecture, gave its correspondence students credits for off-campus activities such as counting change at theme parks and having lunch at restaurants, prompting a stern rebuke from the education ministry.
On Wednesday, the ministry notified city officials to instruct Wits Aoyama Gakuen high school to give new lessons and urge the school to stop accepting new admissions.
Correspondence course students at Wits Aoyama usually attend nationwide study support facilities and the school is obliged to give them face-to-face schooling twice a year at its main campus in Iga.