The education ministry announced the exam pass rates at 81 public and private medical schools across Japan from spring 2021. The rate for women stood at 13.6 percent, which is 0.09 point higher ...

Despite this, officials from the Japan Medical Association (JMA) and education authorities have been reluctant to change the ...

One of the plaintiffs, who lives in western Japan, took a test for fiscal ... who had failed a medical school entrance exam for three years, received zero points. The woman was not informed ...

The first exam is marked for a total of 400 points ... Susumu Morita, general secretary of the Japan Federation of Medical Workers' Unions, says the problem is not only with Tokyo Medical University.

Medical researchers in Japan have discovered a way to predict a potentially life-threatening side effect of cancer immunotherapy ...