13 women sue Juntendo University in Tokyo over rigged entrance exams
A total of 13 women filed a damages suit Thursday against a medical school in Tokyo after it rigged its entrance exams in favor of male candidates. The plaintiffs, who took entrance examinations at Juntendo University between 2011 and 2018 but were not accepted, are ...
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. Juntendo University, which received the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's top award this ...
The ministry will start preparing rules to ensure fairness in the entrance exams for the 2020 year and beyond.
Juntendo University treated applicants, mostly women, unfairly during its medical school's entrance examinations during the 2017 and 2018 academic years, a report by a third-party committee confirmed Monday. The committee, headed by lawyer Keisuke Yoshioka, said in its primary report that the university has "improperly ...
Third Japan medical school suspected of having discriminated against applicants: sources
Juntendo University is suspected of curbing female enrollment by assessing their scores against higher passing thresholds.
Juntendo University and Showa University are suspected of rigging the results of entrance examinations for their respective medical faculties in the same way Tokyo Medical University did, informed sources said Saturday. Juntendo and Showa, both in Tokyo, are believed to have applied different test judgment ...
Monkeys can make strategic choices based on memory: Japanese research
Monkeys can make judgments based on memory and be confident about their strategic choices, according to a study released Friday. Researchers from Juntendo University and Tokyo University tested to see if "metamemory" — the ability to monitor one's memories, a process that is characteristic of ...
Chiba municipality to offer young women subsidies to freeze their eggs
Urayasu’s groundbreaking subsidy plan to improve the nation’s birthrate may offset roughly 80 percent of the cost of freezing healthy women’s eggs.
Seven out of 10 people who were administered specially treated lymphocytes shortly after undergoing living-donor liver transplants at Hokkaido University Hospital have remained in good health without having to rely on immunosuppressive drugs, researchers said Thursday. Currently, patients who undergo organ transplants have to take ...
Japanese team finds new way to create, research Parkinson's stem cells
Researchers from Juntendo and Keio universities have come up with a quicker and easier way to generate iPS cells from people with Parkinson's disease, a discovery they claim will go a long way in developing a cure for the neurological disease. In a paper published ...
