Education chief Atsuko Toyama said Tuesday her ministry will withhold government grants earmarked for Teikyo University for the current fiscal year and ask the private school to refund part of the grants it received over the last five years.
Tax authorities have determined that the university's medical school collected donations worth 14 billion yen over the last seven years from parents of students not yet formally enrolled.
Toyama also said the ministry will not allow Teikyo Heisei University, a Teikyo group school, to open a new academic course in apparent punishment for the group's improper solicitation of donations.