An Osaka-based restaurant chain operator and its top manager were fined Wednesday for making foreign student employees work longer hours than legally permitted.
A record-high 2,147 students from overseas studied at Japanese high schools for a period of three months or longer in fiscal 2015, rebounding from a sharp drop in 2011, the education ministry said Tuesday. The roughly biennial survey on high schools nationwide showed the number ...
In a battle with China for influence and opportunity in Southeast Asia, Japan is making inroads on a new front: education. Japan is aggressively recruiting students from the region in hopes they will enhance economic ties with their home countries in the future. That's because ...
A group of overseas students at Kumamoto University has compiled an English booklet recording the experiences of foreign nationals during last April's powerful earthquakes. "We wanted to record people's different experiences, and we think we can learn from other people's experiences" to prepare for future ...
The number of foreign students in Japan was 14.8 percent higher than last year as of May 2016, thanks to a boost from Vietnam, a public tally showed Friday. According to the Japan Student Services Organization, an independent administrative entity affiliated with the education ministry, ...
Super Tamade Co., an Osaka-based supermarket chain, and its personnel division chief were fined Wednesday for violating labor laws by allowing foreign students to work illegally long hours. The Osaka Summary Court fined the discount supermarket chain ¥1 million ($9,000) and the personnel manager Mitsutoshi ...
The Justice Ministry says 15,657 foreign students took jobs after graduating from universities and vocational schools last year.
Foreign students working part-time in izakaya (pubs) are rising rapidly in the Chubu region amid the increasing tendency of many young Japanese to avoid drunk customers. This is especially true in Nagoya, where many fancy commercial facilities popping up around JR Nagoya Station are attracting ...
A shake-up of Japanese-language schools looms as the government tries to lure more foreign students despite the fact that many are poorly run or even corrupt.
The number of foreign students enrolled in Japan rose 13.2 percent in 2015 from the year prior, with a dramatic increase in students from Vietnam and Nepal, according to data from the Japan Student Services Organization out Thursday. According to JASSO, an independent administrative body ...
A man running a Japanese language school in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, was arrested Saturday for allegedly letting several foreign students work longer than the maximum hours allowed by law, police sources said. The police arrested the man in his 50s and are investigating the involvement ...
Cooperatives at three universities in western Japan plan to stop using signs in student housing guides that indicate they will allow non-Japanese to live there. The co-ops at Kyoto University, Doshisha University and Ritsumeikan University said the decision was made after the Anti Racism Information ...
