Women outperform men in Japanese medical school entrance exams, years after testing scandal

More women qualified for places than men for first time since universities admitted to deliberately failing female applicants

Japanese women have outperformed men in medical school entrance exams for the first time since universities admitted they had deliberately failed female applicants to inflate the number of male doctors.

According to new government data, 13.6% of female candidates passed exams at 81 medical schools last spring, compared with 13.51% of men.