The Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) is investigating the situation of foreign students staying at "College Student" status of residence as of May 1st every year.
According to the survey, 267,042 foreign students as of May 1, 2017. An increase of 11.6% over the previous year.
Countries / areas with a large number of international students are as follows
- China, 107,260 people (an increase of 8,777 compared to the previous year)
- Vietnam 61,671 (7,864 increase over the previous year)
- Nepal 21,500 (up 2,029 compared with the previous year)
Meanwhile, as there are many foreign students who come to Japan from September to October among foreign students, we are also conducting a survey on the number of foreign students from 2015, and the number of foreign students enrolled in FY 2016 The number of international students is 299,742 people.