The committee that selects the University of Tokyo's next president chose Yuko Fujigaki with the approval of 14 of its 15 members, excluding the chair, NHK reported. The committee released a detailed account of how the selection unfolded.
Fujigaki had finished second in a vote of faculty and staff. The released record sets out how the committee weighed that result against its own deliberations before settling on her.
The University of Tokyo president is chosen by a selection committee rather than by a direct vote of the faculty, a structure that leaves the final decision with a small group even when staff are polled. The disclosure of the vote count is unusual for a process whose internal deliberations are rarely made public.
Faculty and staff had pressed for more openness in the run-up to the decision. A group of them submitted a second written request over the selection, NHK reported on October 27.