BEPPU, Oita Pref. -- Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, aiming to become a pioneer in the internationalization of higher education, accepted new students of diverse nationalities in a ceremony earlier this week.
The university, set up in this hot spring resort city last year by Kyoto's Ritsumeikan University, recruits about half of its students from overseas.
It now has 904 students from 64 countries, who account for about 48 percent of all students at the institution.