Editorial

15:51 JST, December 5, 2025

Opaque donations seem to have become the source of a collusive relationship between a doctor and a corporation. The university must review its methods for collecting donations and the system for managing them.

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a doctor, who is an associate professor of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, on suspicion he accepted bribes for the selection of medical equipment used at the university’s affiliated hospital.

The doctor is suspected of accepting about ¥700,000 in bribes from a Tokyo-based medical equipment manufacturer in the name of “donations for academic research” between 2021 and 2023 in exchange for introducing the company’s products at the University of Tokyo Hospital.

Employees of national university corporations are considered “quasi-civil servants” and can be........

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