3 ex-Oita education officials and teacher indicted for bribery

Saturday 26th July, 07:02 AM JST

OITA —

The Oita District Public Prosecutors Office on Friday indicted four public education officials for bribery over a teachers’ recruitment scandal in Oita Prefecture. Two former senior education board officials—Masato Ninomiya, 61, and Katsuyoshi Eto, 52—received 1 million-yen gift vouchers each from another former senior official, Tetsuro Yano, 52, and his wife Kaoru, a 50-year-old vice principal at an elementary school, in 2006 in return for favorable treatment in the recruitment of Yano’s daughter, the indictment said.

Five people, including the four, have been arrested so far in the southwestern Japan prefecture over the recruitment scandal. The prefectural education board has already decided to dismiss teachers, who were confirmed to have passed the recruitment test by illegitimately manipulating the recruitment exam results.

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LIBERTAS at 10:04 AM JST - 26th July

And we wonder why the children behave the way they do?
nandakandamanda at 11:00 AM JST - 26th July

The biggest problem here is that they got exposed. Once you are out in the open, everyone points at you and shuns you. A bit like Peter denying knowing Jesus.
smithinjapan at 12:52 PM JST - 26th July

Is there a legitimate way of manipulating exam results?
thepro at 05:10 PM JST - 26th July

I read on another news site that more than half of the teachers in that district in 2007 were hired after their scores were bumped by these crooks. More than half of the teachers there aren't qualified, while those that were qualified failed because they didn't have rich daddys. Absolutely disgusting the corruption in this country. Even education is rotten through with these money loving dirtbags.
nandakandamanda at 05:48 PM JST - 26th July

thepro. It's not just Oita.
thepro at 08:07 PM JST - 26th July

No doubt. I've seen some crappy teachers in my time.