The entrance to the Tokyo Medical University where entrance test scores for female applicants were routinely altered to keep women out. — Photos: AFP
It was February 2010. A meeting of Tokyo Medical University’s entrance exam committee was about to take place in a room of a high-rise hotel in Tokyo’s Nishi-Shinjuku district.
The fate of examinees was about to be decided at the hotel, which is located close to the university.
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