The government plans to treat international schools like private domestic schools starting in April and give preferential tax treatment to donors to such schools, government officials said Saturday.
The education ministry and the Finance Ministry have agreed to recognize international schools as special public-service promotion corporations, which include corporations that run private Japanese general-education and vocational schools, the officials said.
The move is expected to meet more criticism from the Korean, Chinese and other ethnic communities in Japan, whose schools will not be recognized. Heads of many of these schools have protested against another recent government scheme considered to be exclusionary.