School building found defective.

A building of a metropolitan government-run high school in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, was found to have almost 1,100 defects, and the Tokyo metropolitan government is considering imposing administrative punishments on the five general contractors that constructed it, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Saturday.

Tokyo Metropolitan Harumi Sogo High School was built in 1996 and is known as one of the few high schools that teaches both general and vocational education.

Although the building has already been repaired, the metropolitan government views the construction work as unusually poor and has instructed the joint venture composed of the five midsize general contractors, …