30,000 foreign students entered Japan since COVID border curbs eased

Around 30,000 foreign students have arrived in Japan since March when the government eased COVID-19 border controls, education minister Shinsuke Suematsu said Tuesday.The government estimates around 110,000 overseas students were waiting to enter Japan as of last month after being kept out for roughly two years by the country's strict border restrictions.It aims to accept all those waiting by May, and the minister said progress toward that goal is "generally going well."Japan's long-running and stringent border controls drew fierce criticism from impacted students and academics ahead of the…READ FULL ARTICLE