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International students in Japan have been increasing in number since the Nakasone administration launched an internationalization campaign in 1983 to attract 100,000 students by the early twenty-first century. While international students were expected to return to their home countries after graduation under this plan the government’s objectives later shifted culminating in its 300,000 International Students Plan in 2008. Beside the quantitative goal to attract 300,000 international students by the year 2020 this new plan actively promotes the hiring of international students in the Japanese labor market after their graduation. If this plan is successful the country can expect the number of graduates applying for working visas to increase dramatically in the near future. Already the number of working visas granted to these graduates has increased by more than three times over the period between 2002 and 2013. Based on data from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the Japan Student Organisation (JASSO) this paper examines the recent changes in government measures to attract international students and analyses the impact of the growing number of these students entering the Japanese labor market after graduation.
Hennings et al. (Mon,) studied this question.