Any graduate of a non-Japanese high school will be able to take Kyoto University's entrance exam next April if a new policy announced by the prestigious school Wednesday is approved by the education ministry.
Kyoto University would become the first public university to open the application tests to graduates of all non-Japanese high schools in the country.
The ministry put public universities' admission policies under the spotlight in March when it announced that graduates of international schools accredited by Western education groups would be allowed to take entrance tests.
The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry froze the plan in order to reassess the situation, however, following widespread criticism that the plan was discriminatory toward other non-Japanese schools.