Experts warn Japan's language schools are becoming a front for importing cheap labor
A 29-year-old Nepalese student in Tokyo has found herself stuck in limbo with her dreams derailed, and the state of Japan’s language schools is to blame.
Sophia University provides halal lunches after uptick in Muslim exchange students
To better accommodate the growing number of Muslim exchange students, Sophia University in Tokyo has started selling boxed lunches made with halal food. "Until now, I have been buying my lunch at convenience stores and asking my Japanese friends to make sure it doesn't include ...
Chinese exchange students at Shiga University have been interviewing local residents and posting the videos and articles in Chinese under a project called Interviewing 100 People in Hikone. With relations between the two countries worsening in recent years, the students hope to "show the kindness ...
Students offer practical ideas to boost tourism
Creating a credit-card friendly market, providing round-the-clock public transportation and supporting travelers in multiple languages would go a long way toward increasing overseas visitors to Japan, international students advised the tourism ministry Wednesday. Speaking at the ministry's first roundtable meeting of its kind, 12 students ...
Recruit foreign students to fuel growth, panel says
Japan should strategically bring in more students from emerging economies who can contribute to both their homeland and Japan's growth, a midterm report by an education panel working on exchange student issues said Monday. The report compiled by the nine-member panel, headed by Tsutomu Kimura, ...
Hard-charging foreigners inspire Nagoya University sumo team
With the 2013 July Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya set to kick off Sunday, Osunaarashi of Egypt is grabbing the media spotlight as the first pro sumo wrestler from Africa. But sumo fever is also spreading at Nagoya University, where the sumo club took in ...
