In a rare move, the University of Tokyo held a news conference on Wednesday to apologize for a series of bribery scandals involving its staff, as well as explain the details of what had happened and governance failures that allowed the misconduct to occur.
“We sincerely apologize for having severely undermined the trust placed in us by society as an institution of education and research,” the university’s president, Teruo Fujii, said.
The news conference was held following the indictment of 62-year-old Shinichi Sato, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Medicine and a practicing doctor at the hospital’s dermatology department, for allegedly accepting big-ticket entertainment services at luxury clubs and brothels.
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