The European Commission has announced the results of the call for proposals for Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Partnerships with Japan.

An increase in overseas school students has prompted the Japanese government to boost support for Japanese-language learning.

An investigation into a Tokyo university has found it lost track of 1,610 international students, prompting Japan's Education Ministry to put a halt to it accepting further students.

Japanese will impose strict penalties on providers who lose contact with their international students in response to one university that lost 700 students.

Japanese language provider Genki Japanese and Culture School has announced it will open a new branch in the centre of Kyoto.

The level of English proficiency among Japanese school children has not improved at the rate of the government's targets, it has been revealed.

Japan will open a National Information Centre in order to collate data on the academic credentials of institutions and students, in English, for the use of overseas university admissions staff.

A Japanese great-grandmother has set out to prove that it is never too late to learn a language as she bids to conquer English before the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.