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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2022
Chinese man arrested for alleged Hitotsubashi University exam cheating
The man, in his 20s, allegedly leaked a test question through social media and solicited an answer, sources said
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2019
Open-ended questions for Japan's new university entrance exams scrapped
The government Tuesday decided against adding open-ended questions for Japanese and math to the country's new standardized university entrance exams due to start January 2021.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2019
244 candidates passed Japan's civil service hiring exam for people with disabilities in fiscal 2019
The government said Tuesday that 244 applicants passed its national civil service examination for people with disabilities in fiscal 2019.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2019
First exam held in Japan for foreign nationals seeking new working visas
Gearing up to accept more foreign workers under a pair of new visas launched earlier this month, Japan held its first qualifying exam Sunday for applicants in the country.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2019
14% of medical students in Japan asked personal questions, including on marriage and childbirth, during entrance interviews
A total of 14 percent of medical students said they were asked personal questions on topics including marriage and childbirth during their entrance examination interviews, a survey showed Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2019
Kochi city creates lucky charms with fragments of bridge that survived near collapse
Kochi Prefecture's western city of Shimanto has created a good luck charm containing a fragment of a low-water crossing that has withstood the risk of collapse, intended for students wishing for success in upcoming entrance exams.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Dec 17, 2018
Experts question Juntendo University's reasoning behind gender discrimination in medical course entrance exams
A prominent medical university in Tokyo, which recently admitted setting a higher bar for female applicants to pass entrance exams, is now being criticized for the reasons it has given for its gender discrimination.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2018
Nihon University admits nepotism in entrance exams
Nihon University revealed that in the past two years it gave preference to 10 applicants whose parents had graduated from its medical school, at the expense of other students.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2018
More Japanese medical universities seen rigging entrance exams: education ministry report
More medical universities in Japan are likely to have manipulated entrance exam results against female applicants and favored particular individuals, the education ministry said in its midterm report Tuesday, without disclosing the names of the institutions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2018
More medical schools in Japan suspected of manipulating test scores of female applicants, minister reveals
More medical schools were found to have disadvantaged female applicants in their entrance exams, in a survey taken after the discovery that a Tokyo medical university had manipulated test scores to curb female enrollment, education minister Masahiko Shibayama said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2018
Support group for victims of Tokyo Medical University's discriminatory admissions policies urges investigators to reveal scores
A support group for those subject to discrimination through Tokyo Medical University's admissions policies, which favored male students, said Monday it had requested that the university's third-party investigation release the scores of students who took the exams and want to know their scores.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 5, 2018
More men pass entrance exams than women at 80% of Japan's medical schools: survey
The government released preliminary results of a survey on medical school entrance exams in the wake of a prestigious university admitting it lowered the scores of women to curb their enrollment.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 20, 2018
New entrance exam isn't the right answer
The government is putting the cart before the horse by testing students' ability to think critically without first changing how they are taught.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2017
12 disqualified for cheating on Japan's snow-delayed university exams
A dozen people across Japan were caught cheating on the annual college entrance examinations over the weekend, while heavy snow caused delays to start times in several areas, the organizer said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2017
Heavy snow falls in Sea of Japan areas; much of country has coldest day of winter
A cold air mass gripped much of the country on Saturday, with many regions experiencing their lowest temperatures this winter and heavy snow hitting Sea of Japan coastal areas.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2017
Snowy weekend expected on Sea of Japan coast
The Meteorological Agency issues a warning for snowstorms and icy road conditions as a cold air mass approaches the Sea of Japan coast.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 3, 2016
Residents want park where 47 ronin buried; man passes bar exam after 17 failures; birth rate drops due to superstition; USS Independence arrives
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 29, 2015
Flawed entrance exam reform
The education ministry's effort to reform the university entrance exam system has serious flaws.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2015
Record schools take part in unified university entrance exam
The annual unified college entrance examinations held across Japan this weekend saw nearly 560,000 applicants and a record 849 public and private schools take part.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 8, 2015
College entrance exams fail to make the grade
Before Japan's Central Council for Education undertakes the formidable task of revising Japan's university entrance exam, it needs to understand why such exams, both here and in the U.S., fail to make the grade.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan's former PM Aso meets Trump for talks on security and economy
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in New York on Tuesday. The Japanese government’s top spokesman on Wednesday played down the meeting as one conducted "in the capacity of one lawmaker" and “without the government’s involvement.”
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.

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