News Tokyo court orders medical school to pay damages for rigged exams

Tokyo Medical University has to pay damages of 18.26 million JPY (128,000 USD) to 27 women who sat for entrance exams between 2006 and 2018 but were denied a place due to a long-standing practice of rigging test scores to favour male candidates. The university was also ordered to cover the cost of the entrance exams, 200,000 JPY per year per person, taken by the women. Last May, the Tokyo District Court ordered Juntendo University to compensate 13 female applicants for 8.05 million JPY.

Presiding Judge Kyoko Hiraki said the practice violated the spirit of the Constitution as well as the Fundamental Law on Education ban on gender discrimination. The women were, in effect, unable to freely choose which medical school they wanted to enter, the judge ruled. Four plaintiffs also received compensation ranging from 1 million yen to 1.5 million yen on grounds they would have passed or had a high possibility of passing had a fair test been conducted.

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