A former Ohu University professor arrested on suspicion of leaking questions on a national dentistry examination to students had bragged about obtaining information about the exam since 1999, university sources said Wednesday.
Kenji Kusunoki, 54, a former professor at the private university in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, had boasted of his access to exam information after Itsuo Ueda, 59, a professor at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, took the chair to serve on the exam board in July 1998. Kusunoki obtained questions for the March 2000 examination directly from Ueda, according to police. The two men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of violating the Dental Practitioners Law.
Kusunoki obtained three questions on oral hygiene to appear in the national exam and included them in the university's exam given to final-year students last February, they said.