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Article: Admission more possible: this month a number of Japanese universities implement a new admissions system for overseas students. Called the Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students, or EJU for short, the system makes the application and admission process much easier for potential foreign students ... (Cover Story I).(Brief Article)
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- June 1, 2002
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AS of 1 May 2001, there were 78,812 foreign students from abroad studying in Japan, a 23% increase over the previous year. It was a record high, and the third year in a row that the record was broken.
It is estimated that some 1.5 million foreign students are studying in countries other than their own throughout the world. About two thirds of them are studying in the advanced countries of Europe and the United States. Compared with these, the number studying in Japan is relatively small. Still, in the wake of globalization and continued international exchange, the number of foreign students in Japan is rising steadily. Except in 1996 and 1997, when the economic ...