JAPAN - The land of inequity...

 TOKYO -- Despite local government attempts to fix gender discrepancies in pass marks for admissions tests to conventional Tokyo metropolitan high schools, some 80% of schools have still ended up requiring higher test scores from female applicants than male ones in recent years, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. 

The situation affecting Tokyo high school hopefuls has come about due to local government control on male and female student intakes. To alleviate the issue, the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education has applied corrective measures to 30 to 40 schools a year, but still admissions tests from 2015 to 2020 for about 80% of schools had higher passing requirements for girls, internal government documents show. 

In one case, an admissions test marked out of 1,000 had a passing-grade discrepancy 243 points higher for girls, and in another 20 girls failed despite scoring higher than the lowest-scoring successful male applicant.