Editorial

15:17 JST, January 16, 2025

It is outrageous if a university chancellor, entrusted with restructuring management of her university, was seeking to benefit herself amid severe cost-cutting measures. It is hoped that the police will thoroughly investigate the allegations that she was illicitly amassing wealth.

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Kinuko Iwamoto, a former chancellor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University, on suspicion of breach of trust in connection with the construction of new school buildings.

Iwamoto is suspected of having the university illicitly pay out a little over ¥100 million, under the guise of remuneration, to an architect who had no actual duties, when she was vice chancellor and chancellor from 2018 to 2020, thereby causing damage to the university.

The MPD believes that ¥37 million of this sum was given in kickbacks........

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