It isn't exactly underwater basket-weaving, but one can sign up for a Golf Culture class at a university in Yamaguchi Prefecture that's desperate to check falling enrollment.
Hagi International University, a small private school that opened in the historic city of Hagi in 1999 with mostly public subsidies, was authorized to take up to 300 freshmen this academic year. But only 30 enrolled, and just six of them were Japanese.
Despite Hagi International's best efforts to attract Japanese with new courses, critics say it's a lost cause, as 60 percent of its students are foreigners.
The school, which received 4 billion yen of its 6.4 billion yen opening fund from the prefecture and the Hagi Municipal Government, has never had full enrollment.