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A YouTube video about academic pedigree described Fukushima University as “the bottom of the national and public universities” and suggested it shouldn’t be allowed near nuclear-field research. In response, Fukushima University President Koji Sano issued a statement on September 1 pushing back against the video. Opinions in the thread were split over whether the remarks fell within the bounds of an acceptable joke, whether it’s fair to judge a university — including its role as a research institution — purely by exam-difficulty rankings (hensachi), and whether the university should pursue a defamation lawsuit.
Academic-Pedigree Video Says “Don’t Let Fukushima University Near Nuclear Research” — University President Fires Back [Fukushima Prefecture]: The Asahi Shimbun
September 1, 2026, 17:09 — By Yo Hatano
The statement issued by Fukushima University President Koji Sano on the 1st = via the university’s website
Source: asahi.com / Original article here
What people said
A good joke stays right on the edge without crossing it.
This doesn't look like a joke made by someone sharp.
Is there some country where anything goes as long as you call it a joke?
If you know of one, do tell.
The take is just too low-resolution to even be funny as a joke.
Well, guess someone who faded out partway wouldn't get that (lol)
Most ordinary people don't really know about the research side of universities, or professors' roles as researchers.
they're not even in the same league.
Honestly, it does sound like something a high school grad could handle.
Guys like that would be useless anyway, then.
>described Fukushima University as "the bottom of the national and public universities"
Wait, wasn't Kitami Institute of Technology the actual bottom?
Also, there's basically nobody left in the nuclear field these days, so any national university that seriously trains people in it is a valuable resource.
M Institute of Technology's single-subject math hensachi is 37 — easier than the humanities second-stage exam.
Did they just personally demonstrate what happens when you get full of yourself?
They want you to "get" (wakatte) that they never became anything more than a cram-school tutor themselves.
I don't want some high school grad running his mouth about university research, lol
Don't judge people by their academic background.
All they do is vaguely tell you
to "just do the textbook,"
and the instructors can't even explain things when students actually have questions.
Fine, skip holding classes —
but at least skim through the textbooks
your own students are using.
It's a genuinely sloppy cram school.
The moment they start casting comedians like Sandwichman and whoever else for their ads, you already know what kind of place it is.
is going to get forced to shut down over this.
This is going to blow up into a huge controversy.
If anything, the view count's going to explode and they'll get even more full of themselves.
They've been running this as Takeda Juku advertising from the start, farming views through controversy —
there's no way they'll stop.
Even when people from the same university get together, they just end up fighting along club-activity hierarchy lines anyway, so nothing changes.
Popular companies are just using it as a filter to save themselves the trouble, that's all.
Is even asking that not allowed either?
Hey, all you people who hyped up YouTube as "new media," say something.
This is way more vulgar and insulting than old media ever was — how are you going to explain that away?
What exactly are we supposed to learn from watching this?
Well, old media has plenty of awful stuff too, so it's hard to say either way (´・ω・｀)
Nobody said everything on it is high-quality — it's just that the swing between garbage and quality is bigger.
There's also the fact that Google allows it, don't forget.
What kind of bottom-tier "F-rank" school is this?
Wakatte TV only ever says things that are technically correct.
Still, in private-university terms that's roughly MARCH-tier.
National-university science hensachi numbers default to assuming students from elite prep high schools, so they come out looking a lot lower than they really are.
Add +5 for being a national university and +5 for science, so
you'd need a high school hensachi of around 60 just to get in.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Fukushima University is a regional national university centered on the humanities and social sciences rather than engineering, and its focus on nuclear-field education and research stems from the need to train personnel for decommissioning and reconstruction work following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Regarding the video’s claim that the university was “the bottom of the national and public universities,” commenters in the thread pointed to Kawaijuku’s ranking data showing a hensachi of around 40, while others countered that in private-university terms it would be roughly equivalent to the MARCH group, making the limits of judging university rank by hensachi alone a talking point. Whether the university president’s statement will lead to legal action was not clear as of the original article or the thread. Some also noted that the cram-school-affiliated channel behind the video runs on a business model of turning controversy itself into views, raising the possibility that the protest could backfire.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “Academic-Pedigree Video Says “Don’t Let Fukushima University Near Nuclear Research” — University President Fires Back.”
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