早稲田大学取消已頒發博士学位

Last month the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

早大、博士学位取り消し…論文６４か所盗用など

　早稲田大学は２１日、博士論文で盗用があったとして、早大大学院公共経営研究科が中国籍の晏英氏に授与していた博士学位を取り消すと発表した。

 　早大によると、博士学位の取り消しは初めて。早大では晏氏の職業や年齢を明らかにしていない。

　早大によると、晏氏は２０１０年９月、「近代立憲主義の原理から見た現行中国憲法」と題した論文で博士学位を授与されていたが、１１年８月、この論文に盗用があるとの匿名の通報が早大に寄せられた。内部調査の結果、論文の少なくとも６４か所で他人の文献やインターネットからの無断引用が見つかり、うち１２か所について晏氏は盗用を認めたという。論文は１０年１０月に出版されていた。早大では「内容の訂正も含め、晏氏には真摯(しんし)な対応を求めたい」とした。

（2013年10月21日22時35分  読売新聞）

(試譯文)

     On the 21st (October) the Waseda University graduate school public management research center announced that the doctoral degree awarded to Mr. Yan Ying of Chinese nationality was canceled, after noting plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation.

     According to the Waseda University, it was the first time to cancel an awarded doctoral degree. Waseda University did not clarify Mr. Yan's occupation or age.

    According to the Waseda University Mr. Yan was awarded the doctoral degree in September, 2010 for a paper entitled "The present China constitution seen from the principle of modern constitutionalism", but an anonymous report saying that there was plagiarism in the paper was received by the Waseda University in August, 2011. As a result of an internal investigation, the unapproved quotations from others' literature and from the Internet were  found in at least in 64 places of the paper, and Mr. Yan said that he admitted surreptitious usage in 12 of them. The paper was published in October, 2010.  For the Waseda University, they presupposed that "including the correction of the contents, we would like to ask Mr. Yan for an earnest response".

Plagiarism is a serious misconduct in the university.