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More than 40 percent of the national universities are warming to the University of Tokyo plan to shift the start of the undergraduate academic year from spring to fall, a survey found. Major private institutions, including Waseda University, Keio University and Ritsumeikan University, have also shown willingness to ponder the move, which a University of Tokyo panel recently advocated to bring the

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One of Tokyo University’s self-proclaimed goals is to raise “tough students” ready to take on the world. But to do so, Asia’s highest-ranked university is becoming increasingly convinced it will have to take drastic measures – changing its academic calendar to a fall start date.An internal preliminary report released by the university Friday found that the prestigious institution, like much of

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The University of Tokyo's recent decision to shift the start of the school year from the spring to the autumn -- in line with most school systems in the West -- is a sure signal that Japan's most prestigious academic institution is deeply worried about being on the losing end of increasing international competition among universities. Furthermore, the move by Todai -- as the University of Tokyo

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Hundreds of foreign students from Japan's top universities turned up at a career forum Saturday in Tokyo, hoping to secure a job before their graduation in 2013.Clad in dark suits, the students flocked to Tokyo Dome City in Bunkyo Ward to attend briefings by 47 firms — including First Retailing Co., Sony Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.A total of 1,560 students, mostly Asian, registered to

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Attention young Japanese job seekers: Sony Corp. wants to get to know you. Bloomberg News University students attend a job fair in Tokyo. The Japanese electronics giant is shaking things up in the way it will hire the incoming class of fresh entry-level suits, stepping out from the rigid recruitment system used by the country’s most elite companies for generations.Gone are the

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The Tokyo metropolitan government has announced a project to help 10,000 young people study abroad over eight years starting in fiscal 2012 to rectify their increasingly inward-looking mind-sets."Through studying abroad, we'd like to help young people toughen up so they can serve as leaders in the future," a Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education official said.Announced last week, the project will

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For the second consecutive year, Educational Testing Service (ETS), the creator of the TOEFL(R) test, announced the launch of the TOEFL Scholarship Program in Japan. Created specifically for Japanese students, the 2012 TOEFL Scholarship Program will award five scholarships valued at a total of US$40,000. Scholarship funding can be applied to either undergraduate or graduate study for the 2012

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For part three of the four-part Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) interview series, the subject is Abdoulaye Ditie from Mali in West Africa. Ditie graduated from APU in 2005 and now works for Nissan in Japan. Let us find out how he found his career path through APU.News photoQ: What triggered your interest in Japan, and how did you first come over?Ditie: When I was a high school student,

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For the last part of the four-part Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) interview series, the subject is Md Moin from Bangladesh, who graduated from the school in 2005. Moin revealed his thoughts on APU and Japan, together with his aspirations in life and work.News photoQ: Why did you choose to come to Japan and study at APU?Moin: Originally, it was my father who recommended me to come over.

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For part two of the four-part Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) interview series, the subject is Mengmeng Cui from Beijing. After obtaining her Bachelor of Social Science in environment and society at APU in 2004, Cui went to graduate schools in Europe, worked for private companies and non-governmental organizations, started her own business, and now works in Singapore. Continuing to take

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As the job-hunting season for university students due to graduate in spring 2013 kicked off Thursday--two months later than previous years--students and companies are struggling to find their way in this shortened recruitment season.With more companies hiring new employees from overseas, the job market for university students--which has been described as being stuck in an "ice age" due to the

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Japan, once the pride of Asia, might be economically weakening due to its long economic stagnation and the rapid rise of China in recent years. But, perhaps unnoticed, Japan has been emerging as a cultural powerhouse in Asia through its soft power projection.It has not been an easy ride, Japan faces stiff competition from China, which has a huge diaspora in many countries, and rising South Korea,

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English is an indispensable business tool for Japanese, who must compete globally as the domestic markets shrink. This especially applies to young people.So says Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain."Just think about Japan in 10 years' time. People who can do their jobs only in Japan will not be able to survive," Yanai, 62, speaking in

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More than half of the college students who will graduate next March had found jobs as of Oct. 1, while some 171,000 graduating students are believed to still be struggling to gain employment, according to a poll by the labor and education ministries released Friday.While those who have landed a position at 59.9 percent are up by 2.3 percentage points from the same point last year, when the figure

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The following article is a translation from The Yomiuri Shimbun's Educational Renaissance series. This installment, the third and last of three articles, focuses on universities' efforts to attract students by holding explanation sessions specially designed to win over parents.About 120 parents gathered at Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 31 to attend an

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Osaka Foundation of International Exchange and Osaka Prefectural Office will be holding a symposium entitled “Considering How to Train Global Human Resources” with the aim of training global human resources who will play an active role in the world. http://www.event21.jp/global/　At the symposium， a discussion will be held on what global human resources are， what global human resources must do，

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JAPAN'S universities - assailed by claims they have failed to cope with globalisation - are moving to boost their international competitiveness and appeal.Big changes are happening as campuses are offering more courses in English to boost foreign student numbers.The government's Global 30 program, launched in 2008, aims to attract 300,000 foreign students to Japan by encouraging 13 universities -

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You don't have to master Japanese to be able to study in a Japanese university. This was the most important take-home message of the day-long education fair organised last week by the Embassy of Japan and the Japan Foundation.Eleven Japanese universities participated in the fair, which showcased their government's 'Global 30' initiative to attract best students from across the world. Japan had

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Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, was established in April 2000. Though relatively new to the academic scene, the school is one of the most popular universities among Japan's leading corporations today, with over 400 companies visiting the campus to recruit.What makes APU so popular? What is unique about the school? These are among the questions answered in this

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300 students including Chinese and Japanese expected to join program every yearMajor universities in South Korea, China and Japan will launch a joint degree program next year as part of efforts to expand academic exchanges, the Education Ministry said Sunday.The Education Ministry and the Korean Council for University Education announced 10 South Korean colleges and universities chosen to partner

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JAPAN's universities - assailed by claims that have failed to cope with globalisation - are moving to boost their international competitiveness and appeal. The university sector here shrugs off industry complaints that it is not generating graduates who can be deployed outside Japan.But nevertheless big changes are happening as campuses try to boost foreign student numbers and offer more courses

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The education ministry plans to invite 150 foreign university students who are interested in studying in Japan to join free "trial study trips" to this nation, it was learned Wednesday.The about-two-week trips, which will include visits to areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, were conceived as a response to the trend of foreign students canceling plans to study in Japan since the March

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THE University of Queensland is poised to capitalise on Japanese companies' sudden expansion into foreign markets by boosting its numbers of students from the country.Together with the University of NSW, UQ's Institute of Continuing and TESOL Education has signed a memorandum of understanding with leading Japanese personnel company DISCO to train Japan's next generation of corporate leaders.With

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With its population aging rapidly, Japan will see an increased need for more nursing and health care professionals in the years ahead.Japan could find itself in serious trouble if it erects barriers too high for foreign workers wishing to work here.Japan and Vietnam are now holding talks to establish a system that will allow young Vietnamese to work as nurses and nursing care workers in Japan.

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The University of Tokyo said Friday it will launch a course whose classes are all in English from fiscal 2012 as part of efforts to promote internationalization.The entrance exam for the course to be set up in the College of Arts and Science will also be conducted in English as it mainly targets foreign students. Known as Todai, the prestigious university is seeking to "gather competitive

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Meiji University is the most desirable school among college-bound high school seniors in the Kanto region, a Recruit Co. survey released Thursday shows.Meiji is known for its ability to help graduating students find jobs.For the 2011 school year, the university received roughly 114,000 general applications, among the most at four-year universities in Japan.Waseda University, Rikkyo University and

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An education ministry panel proposed Wednesday that local governments hire 600 foreigners and Japanese with excellent English-language skills nationwide as regular schoolteachers by the end of fiscal 2016 to enhance students' English-language proficiency.The 12-member panel suggested the state and local boards of education double the number of 18-year-old students who have studied or stayed

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They're back. Worries that foreign students would abandon Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and accompanying fiasco at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have proven to be largely unfounded.According to Ministry of Justice figures, 70,170 foreign students left Japan between March 12 and April 8. No one knows how many more living in the Tohoku and Kanto regions suddenly

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The Justice Ministry on Friday eased the educational requirements for foreign residents who wish to re-enter Japan for employment, allowing graduates of Japanese vocational schools to do so without a college degree.The move is part of a new growth strategy and is aimed at providing career support to such graduates so Japan can attract more foreign students.It is also aimed at luring back

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AUSTRALIA'S trade and tourism agencies are making a renewed push to boost the number of Japanese visiting the country to study English or vocational courses and for work experience.The number of Japanese visitors to Australia has dwindled in recent years and the country has fallen behind India, China and South Korea as a source of foreign students.Austrade's Tokyo office and Tourism Australia

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The Japan Business Federation said Monday it will launch scholarships next year to support students studying abroad, given that young Japanese people are said to have grown reluctant to study or work overseas. The nation's largest business lobby, known as Keidanren, plans to provide annual scholarships of 1 million yen each to 30 students from 13 universities, including Tohoku University and

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Kyoto Seika University will offer a doctoral course on studies of Japanese "manga" comics in fiscal 2012, the private university in the city of Kyoto said Tuesday.The university will be the first Japanese university to offer a doctorate in the subject, during which students will study the theory of manga making and actually produce manga, the university said, adding the course will allow for

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The government on Thursday outlined plans to give preferential treatment to foreigners with specialized skills to encourage them to work in Japan.According to the Justice Ministry, the preferential treatment will be based on a point system that will allow visas of up to three years to be extended to five years. It will go into effect by the end of the year amid increasing international

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The government plans to ease the academic requirements for obtaining work visas, thereby making it easier for foreign graduates of Japanese vocational schools to work in this country, sources said Monday.The move is aimed at attracting more foreigners to study in Japan, the sources said.The Justice Ministry plans to revise the relevant ordinance shortly, with the new policy to be implemented in

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The Japan Tourism Agency will send some 1,100 foreign students in Japan to tourist spots across the country starting in July to check out the facilities, including hotels and inns, and find new attractions as it tries to lure back tourists scared off by the March 11 catastrophes.The agency said Friday that it hopes the students will spread word online about the sites to ease concerns about the

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When it comes to preparing for the April launch of compulsory English classes in elementary schools, the private sector appears to have a clear lead over public school teachers."We kicked off our preliminary research group in the beginning of 2007," Mina Funabashi, who heads the English content management division for elementary school products at Benesse Corp., told The Japan Times.The

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n the 2011 Spring Term (April-June), Graduate School of International Management (GSIM) at the International University of Japan (IUJ) will offer a course to introduce developing business applications (Apps) for smart phones based on iPhone/iPad Operating System.Commenting on this course, Dean Philip Sugai said "This course is another great opportunity for our business school to provide our

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Come April, English classes will become mandatory for fifth- and sixth-graders, but a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo has heard the concerns of her overwhelmed colleagues, especially the older ones, who have neither taught the language nor studied it since their university years decades ago.Preparing for the English classes is a new burden for teachers. Some believe they must teach

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Lin Kobayashi explains that in the high school that she attended in Canada, in the early 1990s, there were 86 different nationalities represented in her year alone. Needless to say, Japan has no schools that could compete in terms of diversity, even today. But, if the 36-year-old Tokyo native gets her way, that situation might be about to change. Kobayashi is part of a small but well-connected

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A graduate of the prestigious University of Tokyo's economics department, Keishiro Kurabayashi could have joined a blue-chip firm and begun climbing the corporate ladder. Instead, he interned at DeNA, then a fledgling start-up and now a successful social networking and mobile gaming firm."I thought it was like a rule - I would graduate from Tokyo University, enter a foreign consulting firm and

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A total of 649,982 foreign workers were employed by 108,760 companies and other establishments in Japan as of the end of last October, up 15.5 percent and 14.1 percent, respectively, from a year earlier, the labor ministry said Monday.The total included 259,362 workers in the manufacturing sector, up 15.6 percent from the year before, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the total, the Health,

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Universities are turning out more and more original products to help boost their brand recognition, the latest trend being so-called character goods featuring school mascots and famous faculty. Their efforts appear to be paying off, with the goods popular among current students and those wanting to enroll in the future .At Nagoya University in Aichi Prefecture, a university cooperative has sold

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NEW YORK--More and more U.S. universities are apparently giving up on Japan as a target for recruiting students, as a survey showed that the number of U.S. universities taking part in publicity events in Japan has sharply dropped in recent years.In the wake of a significant decrease in the number of Japanese students studying in the United States, the institutions are shifting their targets to

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More students than ever are choosing universities in Japan for study abroad, and the number of Japanese students leaving the country to study has fallen markedly since a peak in 2004, according to two reports released at the end of December.The Japan Student Services Organization , an independent institution, reported that the number of foreign students studying in Japan reached record highs of

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About 10 percent of universities in the nation use cloud computing services, which Google Inc. and other companies provide free of charge, to run their internal e-mail systems, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.In the survey of major universities nationwide, 14 state- and local government-run universities and 64 private universities said they had wholly or partially consigned management and

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Japan will beef up people-to-people exchanges with the United States this year by dispatching young teachers of the Japanese language and English to the country, government officials said Friday.Tokyo will launch new programs to send those teachers in the fiscal year starting in April amid concerns that bilateral ties could weaken with declines in the number of Japanese students enrolled at U.S.

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Keiko Suezaki in October began sending her 7-year-old daughter to an English school in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, once a week, hoping to give her more exposure to the de facto international language.Although her daughter, Rina, has a 45-minute English activity class at her elementary school once every two weeks, Suezaki didn't think it was enough."If you live in Europe, or maybe in India, you become

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TOKYO — When Zack Wood produces his illustrated stories online, his Japanese classmates say they look like American comics while his American friends say they look decidedly like manga, the popular form of comics that originated in Japan.Zack Wood, a Stanford graduate, enrolled at Kyoto Seika University in Japan to study manga, the popular comic form.That is precisely the blend Mr. Wood, who grew

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In the old days, when the Japanese management style helped to push Japan to the top of the economic stratosphere, Japanese corporations often laughed at the inefficient operations of their Chinese counterparts.But now, as fast-growing China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, Japanese companies find themselves near the bottom of the pecking order in terms of hiring in

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The U.S. government is taking steps to encourage more Japanese students to study at U.S. universities out of concern that the recent sharp drop in Japanese enrollments might result in weakening bilateral relations over the long run.The number of Japanese students who entered U.S. universities in fall last year dropped 15 percent from a year earlier to around 24,800, a sharp fall from around

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A growing number of Japanese university graduates are studying at vocational schools instead of diving straight into the work force in a bid to acquire marketable skills amid the prolonged recession.Nearly 20,000 university graduates entered vocational schools across the country this academic year, up nearly 4,000 from the previous year, according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of

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The number of Japanese studying abroad declined by a record level in 2008, while the number of foreign students currently studying in Japan reached a record-high as of May this year, reports by the education ministry and an independent organization showed Wednesday.The Japan Student Services Organization said in its report that a record-high number of 141,774 foreigners are studying in Japan, up

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Would Mainichi readers be surprised to learn that Japan is preparing to ax one of the cornerstones of its higher education internationalization strategy?The government's cost-cutting panel, which is trying to slash costs in a bid to trim the country's runaway public debt, voted on Nov. 18 to abolish and "restructure" the Global 30 project.Launched last year with a budget of 3.2 billion yen,

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University students are having a hard time finding jobs amid the economic downturn, with those who have secured employment starting after their scheduled graduation next spring hitting a record low of 57.6 percent as of Oct. 1. But a new trend among firms to seek more aggressive and proactive employees may be creating more chances for foreign students looking for work experience in Japan, even in

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BANGALORE: Next year, students from Karnataka who want to study in Japan needn't go to one of the four metros for scholarship exams. They can come to Bangalore instead. Announcing this in the backdrop of Emperor Akihito's birthday on December 14, Mayayuki Tsuchikawa, consul and head of the consulate told TOI that scholarships are offered in three courses -- undergraduate, diploma and professional

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Cram school operator Eikoh Inc. said Friday it has acquired Shane English School to strengthen its English-language education for elementary school children ahead of the planned compulsory teaching of the language for fifth- and sixth-graders. Eikoh, based in the Kanto region, didn't disclose how much it paid for the acquisition of shares in the four operating companies that run the English

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Japanese students are increasingly content on staying put in the classroom – at home.The number of Japanese students who enrolled in U.S. universities dropped a whopping 15% for the 2009 academic year, following a 14% fall off the previous year, according to a report released this week. It was one of the biggest country declines noted.The Japanese student population in the U.S. declined to 24,842

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FamilyMart Co., through its network of convenience store outlets in Asia, has begun offering help to foreign students looking to study in Japan.In cooperation with Kawaijuku Educational Institution, a major prep school chain that offers university entrance exam preparation, and travel agency JTB Corp., FamilyMart will provide free newspapers at its overseas stores containing information on

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The number of foreign students looking for jobs in Japan is increasing as companies go global and seek more overseas workers -- providing tougher competition for Japanese students amid the ongoing economic downturn.On Oct. 17 the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) held a job-seeking preparation seminar for overseas students. A total of 517 students from China, South Korea, Bangladesh and

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The lack of student interest in studying abroad is casting a shadow over the future of this quickly graying nation, according to a noted German business professor."I can't overemphasize the importance of studying abroad," David Bach, the 35-year-old dean of programs at the IE Business School in Madrid, said in a recent interview with The Japan Times."It's incredibly important for Japan to have

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A SUBSIDIARY of language teaching giant Berlitz is planning to establish English teaching schools for foreign students at several Australian universities.ELS has almost 50 schools with 15,000 students in the US and plans to expand into Australia and Canada.ELS offers its own certificate of English proficiency, which competes with the widely accepted IELTS and TOEFL qualifications.More than 600 US

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Fostering global human resources seems all the rage these days and several Japanese universities are jumping in, opening their doors to foreign students who aren't proficient in Japanese in a bid to snatch top-class talent from around the world.While the institutions prepare to make their programs attractive to foreign students, university officials say the private sector should also open up so

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As Japan watchers warn that the island nation is becoming more insular, the government's newest bid to internationalize Japan's stuffy higher-education system—the misnamed Global 30—is off to a wobbly start.The goal was to recruit 30 universities and support their internationalization efforts. Beginning last year on a 3.2-billion-yen, or about $38-million, budget, the project aims to

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The government is set to introduce a new program that will encourage more students to study abroad by giving them financial assistance to stay overseas for a short period of time, it has been learned.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is launching what it has dubbed a "short visit" program from next fiscal year to boost the number of students who study abroad. It

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The consensus says Japanese university students are lazy and apathetic. Unfavorable comparisons are made with Chinese studying here. Yet those same students at their annual autumn festivals can show an enthusiasm, professionalism and attention to detail superior to anything at a Western university, or a Chinese university for that matter. When I try to find the reason for all this effort, the

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TOKYO, Aug 11, 2010 (IPS) - Wahyudin dreams of becoming a full-fledged caregiver, if not a certified nurse, in Japan. But the Indonesian worker must first pass the required Japanese-language national certification examination, which is far from easy.Until then the 29-year-old Wahyudin, a registered nurse in his home country, will remain a caregiver trainee in an elderly-care facility in Yamada

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A total of 14 Bangladeshi young government officials will leave for Japan next month to study for two years under Japan Development Scholarship (JDS), says a press release.They will study in Japan for two years to obtain Master's degrees in various fields.A send-off ceremony for the JDS fellows was held on Monday at the Japanese Ambassador's residence.Japanese ambassador Tamotsu Shinotsuka

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Vietnam has been getting a lot of attention from Japanese companies thanks to its rising middle class and plans for large-scale development projects, such as nuclear power plants and railway systems. More and more Japanese companies are interested in hiring Vietnamese employees to do businesses in the country.For such firms, there are potential employees already living in Japan, as an increasing

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Thirty students from the U.S. traveled to Kyoto last month under a new U.S. government initiative to boost the country’s number of Japanese speakers, to make the country more competitive globally.The student trip was sponsored by the U.S. State Department as part of its Critical Language Scholarship Program, known as CLS, a government initiative aimed at improving the foreign language skills of

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Fast Retailing Co., Lawson Inc. and Rakuten Inc. are planning to boost hiring of foreign nationals by up to 50 percent of their new recruits in fiscal 2011, officials of the companies said Tuesday.Because they are expanding global operations, especially in emerging markets in Asia, amid shrinking domestic sales, the three companies are accelerating operations to hire Asian graduates in their home

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A Japan-U.S. panel drawn from government, business and academia called Friday for sustaining a program to invite English and other foreign language instructors to Japan, challenging a Japanese government view, expressed earlier this year, questioning the necessity of the project as part of a review of unnecessary public projects.The U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange,

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Nestled near the top of a mountain in southern Japan and shrouded in fog, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University would never win a prize for accessibility.Yet this 10-year-old private college boasts something its rivals in Japan have struggled to achieve: a genuine international campus. Nearly half of its 6,200 students are non-Japanese, the highest ratio of any university in the country. In

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The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry will start a joint online service Tuesday to link job-seeking university students set to graduate next spring and small and midsize companies looking to hire them.The ministry and the chamber will launch a Web site named Dream Match Project, to be operated by Recruit Co., for the service. It will act as an

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(1) On April 16, the first Japan-China-Korea Committee for Promoting Exchange and Cooperation among Universities was held in Tokyo attended by committee members from three countries (see Annex). In the Second Trilateral Summit (Beijing, October 10, 2009), Prime Minister Hatoyama had proposed to hold an intergovernmental expert meeting in order to discuss quality-assured exchanges. This committee

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Government officials and experts in academic circles from Japan, China and South Korea agreed Friday to create a framework of cooperation to help ensure the quality of university education.Participants in the first such trilateral meeting agreed to hold working-group discussions on student exchange programs and credit transfer systems as well as how to share information about the university

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Representatives from Japan's Meiji University visited the College Entrance Examination Center last month to ask about the feasibility of using local proficiency test scores as the basis for admitting Taiwanese students, a spokesman for the center said Friday.Taiwan was the third stop of the Japanese delegation's trip, which also took them to South Korea and China, aimed at recruiting senior high

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Universities are facing higher expectations from society amid intensified international competition toward fully-fledged knowledge society, and it is indispensable for universities to foster human resources in various areas through ensuring quality assurance of education. Along with the advance of globalization in every field of society and economy, international cooperation and competition are

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For some people, manga may not stack up as a high-brow subject like Chinese classics or nuclear physics, but universities in Japan are increasingly offering courses on comic culture as part of their curriculum. The first attempts to set up manga departments were greeted skeptically because universities were considered unsuited to fostering manga artists who needed creative ideas and drawing

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By JAY KLAPHAKEIn the 1989 Oscar-nominated fantasy-drama film "Field of Dreams," the main character, a farmer played by Kevin Costner, heard a voice that kept whispering the phrase "If you build it, he will come." The Voice urged Costner's character to take a leap of faith and build a baseball diamond in the middle of an Iowa cornfield.It would seem that about five years ago the Voice relocated

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In his opening address to the Diet in January 2008, then Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced a proposal to increase the number of foreign students studying in Japan to 300,000 by 2020. The plan, presented under the heading "an open Japan," aims to bring in "top-class talent" from overseas to Japan's graduate schools and industries. Moves to bring in more foreign students have long been

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A vocational film school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, is set to become Japan's first accredited university specializing in filmmaking from April next year, with the goal of becoming an academy of motion picture arts drawing students not only from Japan but other Asian countries, the school said. "We hope to make the university a major movie hub, gathering young Asians," said Tadao

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Australia is the number one destination for Japanese school excursions and study tours, according to a report by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In the 2007-08 Japanese financial year, 43,669 Japanese students visited Australia, of whom 34,802 arrived for school excursions and 8,867 came for language study tours. After Australia, the next most popular

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A seminar entitled “Study in Japanese Universities” will be held on February 3, 2010 at the Auditorium of the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia (INAT).The event is organized by the office of “University of Tsukuba” in Tunis for Japanese Universities (BUTUJ) within the framework of the project for establishing Core Universities for internationalization (30 global projects) sponsored by the

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In 2008, the Government of Japan announced the "300000 Foreign Students Plan," which calls to increase the number of foreign students in Japan from the current 120,000 to 300,000 students by 2020. It is aiming to make a significant increase in the number of foreign students studying in Japan in the next five years.We spoke to the officer in charge of the plan at the Ministry of Education, Culture

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17 January 2010MUSCAT -- Dr Rawvya bint Saud al Busaidiya, Minister of Higher Education, received at the ministry Seiji Morimoto, the Japanese Ambassador to the Sultanate. Seiji Morimoto thanked the minister for allowing the opportunity to discuss certain aspects of scientific and academic collaboration between the Sultanate and his country. Dr Rawya said that her ministry was particularly keen

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The "Look East" policy introduced by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1982 has been an important factor for the success of the programme to send Malaysians to study in Japan, said Universiti Malaya (UM) Pro-Chancellor Toh Puan Dr Aishah Ong.The policy had resulted in 2,986 UM graduates furthering their studies and undergoing training in Japan to emulate Japan's work ethics and

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Japan aims to step up its recruitment of foreign students by increasing the number of courses taught in English, write SUZIEANA UDA NAGU and SHARIFAH ARFAH।THE news that Waseda University in Tokyo had the most number of international students among Japanese tertiary institutions as of last year came as no surprise to those who are familiar with the university.“I do feel as if I’m in a European

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New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) After many European and American universities, it’s now the leading Japanese universities who are set to woo Indian students.According to the Japanese embassy here, at least 13 major Japanese universities will participate in the “Study in Japan Fair”.“Many Japanese universities have degree courses which are offered fully in English and the foreign students can (pursue)

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Japan appears to be suffering from brain drain. Examples include chemist Osamu Shimomura and physicist Yoichiro Nambu, both of whom won Nobel Prizes in 2008 for research conducted in U.S. universities.Japan is not the ideal place to seek employment for some postdoctoral researchers. According to a study conducted by Masako Asano of Osaka Prefecture University, 41 percent of postdocs in particle

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'Shying away from study in America" screamed the front-page headline of the Dec. 11 evening edition of the Asahi Shimbun. The article beneath presented facts and analysis of an unmistakable phenomenon: Japanese students are not being drawn to the United States to pursue their studies as they once were.Let's look at the figures first.The peak was reached in 1997, when a total of 47,000 Japanese

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TOKYO —The number of foreign students studying in Japan reached a record 132,720 as of May 1 this year, up 8,891 from last year, a student support organization announced Thursday। According to Japan Student Services Organization, students from China accounted for the largest number at 79,082, followed by South Korea at 19,605 and Taiwan at 5,332. Students from the three areas made up 78% of

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OSAKA--Universities and colleges have recently begun offering classes to high school students who are already guaranteed admission well in advance of entrance examinations.The move is intended to help prevent prospective entrants from dropping out due to a lack of academic ability or enthusiasm for learning.Due to the declining birthrate, it has become possible for virtually any applicant to gain

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The first day of the semester should be one of the year's busiest, but it is immediately clear at St. Thomas University that something is badly wrong.Unrest: Students near Waseda University in Tokyo protest the university job-hunting system last month. DAVID MCNEILL PHOTOApart from a sprinkling of students chatting near the entrance, the grounds are eerily quiet — the atmosphere seems more like

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CHILDREN will bid konnichiwa to new lessons as Murray Farm Public School joins the Bilingual Schools Program next year. The Carlingford school is one of four state primary schools that will learn an Asian language in the first bilingual classes. Principal Colin Booth said kindergarten and year 1 students will study Japanese for 90 minutes a day. Rouse Hill, Scotts Head and Campsie

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All universities likely will be required to provide prospective tertiary students with certain key statistics, such as dropout and employment rates, according to a draft plan for a review of university establishment standards drawn up by the Education, Science and Technology Ministry. On Thursday, the ministry submitted the draft to a university section meeting of the Central Council for

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Major staffing agency Pasona Group, Inc. has begun a full-scale service for universities nationwide, especially those located outside major metropolitan areas, to support students' job-hunting efforts.The firm will provide services previously not provided by university job placement offices, such as teaching female students makeup techniques to impress recruiters.Students of universities that

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Japanese-language study is growing in popularity every year, especially in East Asian countries, driven by the interest in Japanese animation and the desire to find better jobs in Japan. According to a 2006 survey by the Japan Foundation, Japanese-language education was carried out in 133 countries and territories throughout the world, and Japanese-language learners numbered about 2.98

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TOKYO — In a move to promote serious study of Japanese manga, a university in Tokyo plans to open a library with two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts.Tentatively named the Tokyo International Manga Library, it would open by early 2015 on the campus of the private Meiji University, and be available to researchers and fans from Japan and

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US and British universities dominate the top of a league table of universities worldwide published Thursday, but Asian seats of learning are moving up the global rankings.Harvard remains in top spot in the Times Higher Education (THE) league table, followed by Britain's Cambridge University then Yale in third place, with London's University College and Imperial College in fourth and fifth.Oxford

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Kyoto University Co-op said Monday it will start providing food permissible under Islamic law at the university's cafeteria to meet the needs of the increasing number of Muslim students on campus. The cafeteria will introduce a Halal food corner from Tuesday, avoiding pork and seasonings of pork origin, which Muslims are banned from eating. The new menus include chicken and croquettes made of

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