and speaking of gender justice in employment the reputation of the tokyo medical school has suffered this week after revelations that scores for female of female applicants were systematically reduced since two thousand and six in order to favor male applicants overall as well specific male individuals investigators found that schools skewed scores because they feared women graduates would shorten the and abandon their careers to become parents the scrutiny was prompted by a corruption case surrounding the school's admission of a son of a high ranking bureaucrat allegedly in exchange for government grants the scandal underlies the challenges facing prime minister shinzo abi who is pushed to enable women to enter the workforce mr obvious education minister says the government will investigate admissions process at all japanese medical schools. yesterday federal judge ordered a mother and her daughter to be returned to united states in mid air flight after discovering they had been deported by the u.s. government in the midst of their immigration appeal in court not only did the judge

and speaking of gender justice in employment the reputation of the tokyo medical school has suffered this week after revelations that scores for female of female applicants were systematically reduced since two thousand and six in order to favor male applicants overall as well specific male individuals investigators found that schools skewed scores because they feared women graduates would shorten the and abandon their careers to become parents the scrutiny was prompted by a corruption case surrounding the school's admission of a son of a high ranking bureaucrat allegedly in exchange for government grants the scandal underlies the challenges facing prime minister shinzo abi who is pushed to enable women to enter the workforce mr obvious education minister says the government will investigate admissions process at all japanese medical schools. yesterday federal judge ordered a mother and her daughter to be returned to united states in mid air flight after discovering they had been deported by the u.s. government in the midst of their immigration appeal in court not only did the judge

japan, a prestigio medical school admitted today that it altered admissions scores for years, tt the number of female students. an internal investigation found that officials at tokyo medical university believed many women would later abandon medicine to become mothers. the school's head apologized today. >> ( translated ): society is ananging rapidly and we need to respond to that an organization that fails to utilize women will grow weak. and we fail to contribute to soety. >> schifrin: the education minister says admissions proc schools will now be reviewed. back in this country, the centers foase control and prevention is out with a clearer picture of dangers posed by the zika virus. it shows that 1 in 7 babies born to mothers who were infected during pregnancy, developed health problems. e range from birth defec to seizures. the researchers analyzed children born to infected women in puerto rico and other u.s. territories. the virus is spread by mosquitoes. police in new mexico are police found the body of a young boy at the compound near the colorado border. that comes one day after they found 11 children 11th in hung ger and filling. aerial video showed a tr

discrimination against female students tokyo's medical university is accused of deliberately slashing the entrance cause of female applicants a japanese newspaper says the school wants to keep female numbers down because it believes that they left the profession after starting a family the school has launched an investigation. entrance exams that unfairly discriminate against women absolutely unacceptable i am waiting to hear a report from two q. medical university upon taking the necessary measures more than one hundred thirty thousand people have been ordered to move to shelters around shanghai as typhoon jong daryn is china has raised its toxin alert level at least one hundred fifty flights have already been cancelled and outdoor activities suspended in july caused power outages to thousands of homes in japan well those are the headlines on the al-jazeera i'll have more headlines for you in just under thirty minutes coming up next though is a bone hunter thank you very much for watching. more than twenty years after the bosnian war one man is thirteen for the bones of his piece of all the vilest solo floor. not all the third army and all the real truth bone

school has now launched an investigation it began to use your voice service entrance exams that unfairly discriminate against women are absolutely unacceptable i am waiting to hear a report from tokyo medical university upon taking the necessary measures. still ahead this news hour including building tension in major league baseball is the boston red sox extend their. rivals the yankees that's coming up in a moment. he has. a hand. he has. problems with the sport. gena thank you so much it's anyone's game in birmingham where england and india have closed play on the third day of their first test match ishant sharma blitz the english batting order at the start of the day to leave the home team struggling at lunch sam curran hit sixty three from only sixty five balls to help the home side reach one hundred eighty all out but india's batsmen did not have all their own way as they set off in pursuit of the victory target of one hundred and ninety four. here's a look at the scorecard at the close of play on the third day stuart broad has taken two wickets in india second innings the top score so far is captain vinod kohli who is unbeaten in forty three when play resumes the indians will need ei

ajapanese medical school has admitted it routinely cut women's entrance test scores for several years, while giving extra marks to male candidates. an internal investigation at tokyohave apologised and say they may offer compensation to those affected, but they added that they were unaware of any manipulation of candidates' test scores. let's listen to what the director of the university had to say, a warning, there's some flash photography. translation: we deeply apologise for having inconvenienced and cause so many people paint with such a serious scandal. society is changing rapidly and we need to respond to that in any organisation that fails to utilise women will quote the macro week and it failed to contribute to society. thank you for watching us here on outside source. the of summer 2018 will go down in the history books it is now easily being replaced by something more typical of the time of year. we saw temperatures up to 32 degrees and by the time we get to wednesday, pass for 2a hours or so those temperatures are more like 23 degrees of some parts of the country are seeing a drop in almost 10 celsius so things are turning cooler across the board. you s

tokyo with the latest on this sexism scandal. was this incident just the tip of the iceberg? >> all the data we have so far indicates there was a lot more to it than just one medical school.survey every year, which has shown for many years that women across the board are more likely to succeed at college application, but when it comes to medical school only, they are far less likely than men to get in. in the last few weeks, we have seen a couple of national newspapers run their own surveys, looking specifically at the entrance tests for medical school. approximatelyhat 75% of japan's medical schools, women are less likely to get in. ,n the second round of tests they found in some cases they are less than half as likely as men to get into medical school. kathleen: tell us more about the motivation behind the discrimination. , we are knownapan to work long hours. there is a lot of cultural aspect on why this may be came about. isabel: right. that is what came up in your video clip. that is a theme that came up across the board as we spoke to a lot of doctors, medical students, and academics. the hours are just crazy. in the past few years, we have seen cases of overwork le