{"id":114855,"date":"2018-10-22T18:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=114855&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:53:13","slug":"students-no-longer-need-to-specify-gender-for-entrance-exams","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/students-no-longer-need-to-specify-gender-for-entrance-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Students No Longer Need to Specify Gender for Entrance Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From March next year, the prefectural high school entrance examinations in Fukuoka will not ask students to specify their gender on application forms or admission slips. The Fukuoka Prefectural Board of Education made the announcement on October 17 after deciding that the information was not needed for the screening process. Students taking the exams will still be required to fill in various personal information, including their name, date of birth, and the schools they have graduated from. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASLBJ4K16LBJTIPE029.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asahi Shimbun<\/a>, 10\/17\/2018<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jukenhyo.jpg?resize=1400%2C974&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"974\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jukenhyo.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jukenhyo.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jukenhyo.jpg?resize=768%2C534&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/jukenhyo.jpg?resize=1024%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/uploaded\/life\/236888_52177112_misc.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March next year, the prefectural high school entrance examinations in Fukuoka will not ask students to specify their gender on application forms or admission slips. The Fukuoka Prefectural Board of Education made the announcement on October 17 after deciding that the information was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":114856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-114855","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/114855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}