Not even higher costs for international flights and living abroad have dampened the demand this summer for overseas study among Japanese college students, after three years of pent-up frustration.
The number of Sri Lankans registered in Sammu, in the Chiba Prefecture in Japan, has seen a rapid increase.
The Japan News reported that with an economic crisis in Sri Lanka driving an influx of immigrants to Sammu, Chiba Prefecture, educating children unable to speak Japanese has become an issue