Two colleges, one in Fukuoka Prefecture and the other in Tokyo, have stopped requiring non-Japanese applicants to submit identification certificates, following complaints that it is a discriminatory practice, school officials said Thursday.
An official at Kyushu Dental College in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, said, "We aimed at checking if applicants overstay, but we can confirm it through documents from their high schools."
"As we do not require residence certificates for Japanese applicants, we abide by the claim that the previous practice is discriminatory," the official said.
The Fukuoka school made the decision after a South Korean resident of Japan, who lives in Osaka, complained to the college on Feb. 6 that the requirement was discriminatory. After consulting with the education ministry, the college decided to eliminate the requirement next day.
Tokyo-based Showa University received a similar complaint last month and eliminated the requirement, it said.
"While we did not regard it as discriminatory, we concluded that the certificates are unnecessary," an official said. "We sought applicants' IDs just as a habitual practice, but the claim gave us a good opportunity to review it."
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