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Tired and Disillusioned: Foreign Students in Japan (2019x18)


Air date: Jul 05, 2019

The Japanese government launched its "300,000 foreign students" plan to nurture highly skilled professionals. But behind the scenes, many of them are treated merely as a source of labor. And at one university in Tokyo, over 1,600 foreign students stopped showing up. We interviewed school employees and students to see what's really going on.

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