Asahi Shinbum | 31 August 2018
The Justice Ministry plans to tighten rules for running Japanese-language schools from October in a bid to close loopholes that allow foreign students to work in Japan based on the pretext of studying abroad.
As the number of overseas students in the country surges, the current system is thought to be allowing many students to become de facto migrant workers, and the ministry aims to make sure that all those who come are genuinely here to study.
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