A 49-year-old man has been arrested after refusing to vacate a toilet cubicle after he was disqualified from taking the standardized university entrance exams for not covering his nose with a face mask, despite receiving multiple warnings, police said Tuesday.
After being ordered to leave the English exam he was taking, the man locked himself in the cubicle at the test venue in Tokyo for about three hours until his arrest around 10 p.m. Saturday, according to the police. Test-takers were not allowed to take the exams unless they wore facial masks "correctly" due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The man, whose name has been withheld, did not obey an order to come out and a police officer was forced to climb over the cubicle wall to reach him, they said.