Two HEIs in Japan and Cuba have signed a five-year deal to provide greater exchange opportunities for students and professors.

IALC announces a scholarship partnership with JAOS, to provide language tuition to Japanese nationals, as the Olympics gear up to arrive in Japan.

Mizuho Financial Group is gearing up to enter the student housing market by raising a ¥10bn ($91.8m) fund to capitalise on a shortage of purpose built accommodation for the growing number of overseas students in Japan.

A four-week language program is like a four-week diet program. You work very hard for four weeks, that’s good. But when you return, you rebound. I’m more interested now in developing programs where students can actually practise: service learning, volunteering, training.

The number of international students in Japan grew to 239,287 last year, up 14.8% from the year before, as the country inches closer to its target of hosting 300,000 international students by 2020.

Student accommodation provider, GSA, has announced a joint venture that will build student accommodation for 20,000 domestic and international students in Japan.

Foreign nursing care students in Japan will soon be able to obtain residence status after qualifying without first having to obtain work experience, as the government aim to fill a skills gap.

As many as 170,000 Japanese students study abroad annually - more than three times what official statistics indicate - according to a new survey of agencies across the country.