The Times: Elite Tokyo school expels masked impostor who posed as his brother

The Kaisei Academy in Tokyo puts would-be pupils through a rigorous entrance exam

A boy impersonated his brother to attend one of Japan’s most celebrated private schools for several months without staff noticing.

Kaisei Academy in Tokyo, an all-boys school, said it had expelled one of its pupils after discovering that he was passing himself off as his younger sibling and had never passed its rigorous entrance examination.

The 16-year old younger brother of the fraudulent pupil succeeded in passing the examination for two private schools but chose not to go to the Kaisei Academy, according to the Japanese magazine Weekly Post.

Rather than informing the school, however, his family, who have not been named, sent their other son, who is believed to be two years older, to take up the place offered. The deceit was helped when Japan’s academic year began in April and the country’s schools were closed under lockdown, with lessons given online.

On a computer screen, it was easier for the boy to conceal from his new teachers the fact that he was not the same one who had sat the entrance exam. But even after the school physically reopened in June, his teachers did not realise that the masked youth was an impostor.

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