{"id":262754,"date":"2026-05-31T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/31\/japan-hits-record-400000-international-students-amid-yen-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:50:33","slug":"japan-hits-record-400000-international-students-amid-yen-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/social\/2026\/05\/31\/japan-hits-record-400000-international-students-amid-yen-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Hits Record 400,000 International Students Amid Yen Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation result.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news_bm\" id=\"font\"><!-- ADOPCONS--><!-- news_body --><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"1160\" align=\"CENTER\" bgcolor=\"ffffff\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"ffffff\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2022-0024\/image-00e23657-505e-4b51-89fe-593a8551fd29.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip20260530142958\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"photocaption\">University of Tokyo campus view.\/The University of Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> The number of international students in Japan surpassed 400,000 for the first time last year, marking a record high. By contrast, the number of Japanese students studying abroad has not recovered to pre\u2011pandemic levels, producing a clear dynamic in Japan\u2019s education market: growing inbound enrollment alongside stagnant outbound mobility.<\/p>\n<p>On May 30, the Japan Student Services Organization reported that as of May 1 last year, 408,069 international students were registered in Japan. That figure represents a 21.2% increase from the previous year and is the highest on record since the statistics began.<\/p>\n<p>The international student population first exceeded 310,000 in 2019 but declined as COVID\u201119 spread, falling to roughly 230,000 in 2022. After Japan eased entry restrictions and demand for education recovered, enrollments rebounded and surpassed 400,000 last year for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>By type, students enrolled in higher education institutions\u2014universities, graduate schools, and specialized training colleges\u2014totaled 267,895, the largest group. Students attending language schools and other language institutions numbered 140,174.<\/p>\n<div id=\"iwmads\" data-ad=\"{'id':'EC2A87C8',\" site: adbine_www.asiatoday.co.kr_news_ip_640x360_cmtf, page:page}><\/div>\n<p> By country of origin, Chinese students accounted for the largest share at 32.1%, followed by Nepal (24.6%), Vietnam (10.6%), Myanmar (7.2%), and Sri Lanka (4.3%).<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the flow of Japanese students studying overseas remained relatively weak.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 academic year (April 2024\u2013March 2025), 91,054 Japanese students went abroad to study, an increase of only about 2% from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>While that marks a recovery from the pandemic\u2011era trough, it remains at roughly 80% of the record high of 115,146 students in the 2018 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Japan\u2019s education sector point to the weak yen as a key factor constraining outbound student mobility. A sustained period of yen weakness in recent years has substantially increased the costs of tuition and living expenses overseas, and analysts say more students have canceled or postponed study\u2011abroad plans as a result.<br \/><!-- \/\/news_body(new) --><!-- ADOPCONE-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of foreign students in Japan exceeded 400,000 last year, marking a record high for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/05\/CP-2022-0024\/thumb-5f89ce1a-b395-4de3-8bfe-7e21df337c08.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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