An internal investigation conducted at the Tokyo Medical University has revealed it systematically marked down all female applicants to limit the number of Women studying at the school.
It is understood officials at the university wanted to keep a ratio of 30 percent women to men because they believed that women would take long periods of leave after childbirth and marriage, leaving the country with a shortage of doctors.
The revelations have sparked an education ministry investigation that found more Japanese universities were likely to have manipulated results against women.