Increasing numbers of Japanese are going abroad to study, but a close look at the data reveals that looser definitions are inflating the numbers — and that most students aren't spending much time overseas anyway.
The education ministry will use the hometown donation system to help high school and university students study abroad. Aiming to support regional governments with programs designed to help students study abroad, the ministry will open a dedicated website in September in cooperation with Trustbank Inc., ...
Mizuho Bank Ltd. said Tuesday it plans to launch a ¥10 billion fund with a real estate developer and a trading company to build dormitories for international students studying in Japan. The number of international students is expected to increase, with the government aiming to ...
While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to have succeeded in building cozy ties — at least for now — with U.S. President Donald Trump, the president's controversial executive orders and remarks have made some Japanese students aspiring to study in the U.S. think twice ...
The advertisements were tailored for Chinese college students far from home struggling with the English language and an unfamiliar culture. Coaching services peppered the students with emails and chat messages in Chinese, offering to help foreign students at U.S. colleges do much of the work ...
The charity Ashinaga, which provides financial support to school-age children who have lost parents to disasters, illness or suicide, will start a program in August to help such orphans study English abroad. The foundation said Saturday it will send about 100 children overseas for about ...
Survey of Japanese returnees suggests two divergent emotional journeys for those heading back home after a stretch abroad.
American colleges sorting through a record number of applications from China are increasingly turning to video interviewing services to assess students' language skills, get a feel for their personality and weed out fraudsters. The recorded interviews, recommended by dozens of schools, have emerged as a ...
After years of heading abroad in droves to study, more young South Koreans are opting for education at home as expensive overseas degrees no longer provide an edge in a tough job market — and are even a liability. Recruiters and students say the improving ...
Surveys of Japanese students learning at a university in the U.S. highlight the peaks and troughs of living overseas.
With enrollment of foreign students declining, the University of Tokyo needs to work on making its program for English-language coursework more attractive.
Nearly 70 percent of the foreign students accepted by the University of Tokyo for English-based courses in 2014 elected to go elsewhere, data show.
