The education ministry has issued an order on LEC Tokyo Legal Mind University to improve the quality of its education, noting that most of its full-time faculty members are not actually teaching.
The action is the first taken under the School Education Law after it was revised in 2003 in line with a government deregulatory step enabling private businesses to set up a school in a designated zone.
The university was opened in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in 2004 by Tokyo Legal Mind K.K., which runs prep schools for bar exams and other professional exams. It is one of six universities established by joint-stock companies following the deregulation.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said Thursday that of the 173 full-time members on the faculty, including 131 professors, 106 are not giving lectures or engaged in research at the university, and 40 of the remaining 67, including six professors, concurrently held posts at prep schools and many on the full-time faculty were not being paid by the university.
The ministry has ordered the university to report on the steps being taken to improve within 30 days. A stronger measure may follow if the school fails to comply, ministry officials said.
"We offer our apologies for causing concern and inconvenience," said Katsuo Sorimachi, president of the university.
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