{"id":18771,"date":"2019-07-25T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18771"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:02:21","slug":"japanese-gov-education-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/japanese-gov-education-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese government to aid education as more international students join"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Japanese <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mext.go.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ministry of Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has announced a <\/span><b>new plan to help educational institutions better as more international students join all levels of schooling in the country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The main goal of this new help program will be to ease international students\u2019 transition from their home culture to society in Japan.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The initial steps of<\/span><b> the new program will include language courses and classes on the history, culture, and traditions in the country.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to recent statistics, <\/span><b>there are more than one thousand and seven hundred (1,796) international students in primary and secondary schools all over Japan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and more than sixty percent (60%) of these children are not familiar with the language.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Japanese education<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International students are becoming more interested in the idea of studying in Japan, as <\/span><b>the educational system in the country is one of the best-developed ones in the world.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> More and more students from neighboring countries are also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/chinese-students-boycotting-us-uni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> interest in Japanese education.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trend is spreading not only over primary and secondary schools but higher education as well. Because of the rising number of international students, the government has decided to come up with a detailed action plan to help these children.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the new program will increase the workload on teachers, <\/span><b>international students will get to have a smoother transition.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fitting in the environment is one of the essential factors for <\/span><b>children to feel safe and supported during their school years.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Education in Japan is continuously developing, and the consideration the government is showing towards international students shows how forward-thinking policymakers are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Ministry of Education has announced a new plan to help educational institutions better as more international students join all levels of schooling in the country. The main goal of this new help program will be to ease international students\u2019 transition from their home culture to society in Japan.\u00a0 The initial steps of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[571,636,797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}