“I beat my wife again, because she gave birth to a girl.” These are the words my grandfather wrote in his diary on the day my mother was born in 1958. He was angry because he now had two daughters but ...

TOKYO—Tokyo Medical University is looking to investigate an allegation that the school automatically lowered the entrance-exam results of female applicants for years to ensure that most of the ...

All right, let's turn to another story about women trying to find their place in a male-dominated profession. A Japanese medical school has admitted to systematically rigging its entrance exam to hurt ...

TOKYO — A Japanese medical university has systematically discriminated against female applicants because women tend to quit as doctors after starting families, causing hospital staffing shortages, ...

Two more medical schools in Japan have admitted to systematic discrimination against female students this week, the latest institutional scandal to hit the industry after Tokyo Medical University was ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese medical university that acknowledged systematically discriminating against female applicants announced Wednesday plans to accept more than 60 who were unfairly rejected over ...

Japanese media is buzzing about reports that a prestigious Tokyo medical school systematically lowered women's scores on an admission test in order to admit fewer women. Starting in about 2011, Tokyo ...

Around 2006, executives at Tokyo Medical University saw what they thought was a problem with their applicants: Too many women. At the time, a rapidly aging population was helping propel a doctor ...