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Medical school altered test scores to keep women out: report

Japanese women are highly educated in general but the country's notoriously long work hours force many out of the workplace when they start families

A Tokyo medical school for years altered the admission test results of female applicants to keep the number of women in the student body low, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday.

The Yomiuri Shimbun daily said the manipulation came to light while prosecutors were investigating a separate scandal in which the Tokyo Medical University is accused of illicitly admitting the son of an education ministry bureaucrat.

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