Waseda University announced Thursday it will extend for about three months tuition payment deadlines for its around 2,400 students from roughly 80 countries abroad enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs, saying the global financial crisis may be hitting their livelihood।
The major private university in Tokyo said 339 students from South Korea, for instance, have tuition payments in arrears, although the total includes those who had failed to make payments before the financial crisis started biting।
The South Korean won has depreciated particularly sharply against the Japanese yen, which makes yen-denominated payments more difficult for them। The university said it polled around 100 South Korean students and many of them said they have difficulty making ends meet and honoring tuition payments.
Also eligible for the extended deadlines are two students from Iceland, a country reeling from a massive outflow of bank deposits as the banking sector has collapsed।
The deadline is extended to January for the first semester and to July for the second semester, according to the university।
The university also announced that those enrolling in the 2009 school year after graduating from Japanese high schools outside Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures will be eligible for a grant of 400,000 yen per year, subject to meeting certain criteria such as household income levels।
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