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Psychological barriers for international students in Japan

Psychological barriers for international students in Japan International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 24: 19–30, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. STEPHEN MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU University of Tokyo, International Center, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033 (E-mail: [email protected]) A new and burgeoning population of international students has appeared at Japanese institutions of higher education since the mid 1980s. Although inter- national students have existed in Japan for more than one hundred years, it is only in recent years that they have become a significant presence. While less than twenty years ago there were only 10,000 foreign students in Japan; today the number exceeds 78,000 (Report on International Students 2001). They come from more than eighty countries, but 80% are from Asia. Their dramatic increase can be traced to the government’s decision in 1983 to implement a policy to bring 100,000 foreign students to Japanese universities by the year 2000. As a result, foreign students multiplied until the early 90s, before leveling off at the halfway mark. Although its self-imposed deadline has passed, the government persists in trying to reach its goal, buoyed by a recent surge in numbers. Research that explores the experience of these students is still in its infancy, but studies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Psychology; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Clinical Psychology; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Psychological Methods/Evaluation
ISSN
0165-0653
eISSN
1573-3246
DOI
10.1023/A:1015076202649
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International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 24: 19–30, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. STEPHEN MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU University of Tokyo, International Center, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033 (E-mail: [email protected]) A new and burgeoning population of international students has appeared at Japanese institutions of higher education since the mid 1980s. Although inter- national students have existed in Japan for more than one hundred years, it is only in recent years that they have become a significant presence. While less than twenty years ago there were only 10,000 foreign students in Japan; today the number exceeds 78,000 (Report on International Students 2001). They come from more than eighty countries, but 80% are from Asia. Their dramatic increase can be traced to the government’s decision in 1983 to implement a policy to bring 100,000 foreign students to Japanese universities by the year 2000. As a result, foreign students multiplied until the early 90s, before leveling off at the halfway mark. Although its self-imposed deadline has passed, the government persists in trying to reach its goal, buoyed by a recent surge in numbers. Research that explores the experience of these students is still in its infancy, but studies

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