Tokyo Medical University is in hot water!
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Tokyo Medical University altered results in 2011 to ensure under 30% of successful applicants would be women.
The newspaper publication quote a possible whistleblower that officials adopted a “silent understanding” to reduce the number of female entrants over concerns female graduates were not going on to practice medicine in employment.
The anonymous source said it was because “Many female students who graduate end up leaving the actual medical practice to give birth and raise children.”
As the private university says it will investigate the discrimination reports, SKE48 member Yahagi Yukina (23) revealed on her Twitter that she failed her Tokyo Medical University examinations by one point and shared the Tokyo Medical University scandal news report.
私も医師を目指していただけに悲しい😢💋年前にこの大学を受験したんです…
1点引かれてたのかあ…女子減点 合格3割前後に調整 2018年8月2日 https://t.co/G40dnO9j7j
— 矢作 有紀奈🍬💕(SKE48) (@dental_ske48) August 2, 2018
As many people know that Yahagi is studying dentistry and it’s part of her SKE48 catchphrase and her Twitter user name.