Senior vice health minister Kazuaki Miyaji faced pressure to resign Friday after admitting the day before to helping the grandson of a senior member of his support group enter Teikyo University's medical school.
The action may represent an abuse of authority by Miyaji.
During Thursday's session of the Upper House Health and Welfare Committee, he admitted that his aide gave the application ID number of an examinee, whose grandfather was a senior member of Miyaji's support group, to a Teikyo University official shortly before the entrance exam was held in February.