More than 10,000 foreign students find jobs in Japan

TOKYO, July 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The number of foreign students who graduated from Japanese colleges and graduate schools and found jobs in Japan came to 10,262 in 2007, up 24 percent from the previous year and exceeding the 10,000 line for the first time, the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau said Tuesday।

The number stayed below 3,000 until 2000, and a bureau official attributed the increase partly to expansion in employment in information technology-related fields।

Among the 10,262, students from Asian countries accounted for 97 percent, with those from China at 7,539, followed by those from South Korea at 1,109, Taiwan at 282, Bangladesh at 138 and Vietnam at 131, according to the bureau।

Some 120,000 foreign students are currently studying in Japan. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology came out with a plan Tuesday to help them find jobs in Japan after graduation.
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