The Japanese media's street interviews with Chinese students turned out to be a "rally to show off their wealth."
Recently, a Japanese reality show called "Night Under the Moonlight" interviewed some foreign students in China. I was going to ask how the two came to Japan, but I didn't expect it to become a party for Chinese students to show off their wealth.
Their families are very wealthy, with more than 10,000 yuan of pocket money every month, some parents will sponsor them to buy a house in Tokyo, and some children rely on their parents' financial support to have fun in Japanese "custom places", so they will study Japanese desperately.
It was a random interview in which a Japanese journalist stood on the busiest street in Tokyo with a poster about a Chinese student, waiting for the "material".
Most of the students who participated in this program were children of rich families, but they were probably eliminated to ensure the quality of the program.
However, the overall development direction is right, there will be more Chinese who go to Japan to study, because of probability, the number of "rich second generation" will be more.
Over the past decade, the number of Chinese students studying in Japan has been increasing.
According to the Japan Study Aid Agency, there were 231,146 international students in 2022. Nearly half of the international students, or 103,882, are Chinese. The University of Tokyo has the highest percentage of Chinese descent among international students studying at about 657%。In addition, Waseda and Keio also have the highest number of Chinese students.
There are many reasons why Chinese are so keen to study in Japan.
First of all, China is a super competitive country, it takes the college entrance examination as the best, and the "college entrance examination" is a one-hit win or loser, compared with Japan, its competition is very fierce.
There are more than 2,000 colleges and universities in China, but only 80 are high-level "key universities". In comparison, there are more than 10 million candidates, which is simply not enough. Due to the lack of results due to the investment of a lot of energy, the Japanese college entrance examination seems to be very powerful.
This variety show also comes with a comparison number.
There were 470,000 students in Japan who took the exam, of which 3,085 from the University of Tokyo, 19.21 million from China, and 3,963 from Peking University, a 21-fold gap.
In addition, China's personal property has been developing at a "far ahead" rate for more than a decade.
As the number of wealthy people increases, so do their requirements for their children. For nearly a decade, China has been known as a "big country of studying abroad", and only India can match it, and China is one of them. But Indians mostly come for the sake of settlement, for the sake of settlement. There are also many Chinese students who go abroad to "gild" and then return to China for development.
In the past, most Chinese with better economic conditions in China would not consider studying abroad, while Europe and the United States were their first choice, but now, the fees of European and American universities are getting higher and higher, and the requirements for Chinese students are gradually relaxed, and Japan, a unique country, has become the most popular study destination. What's more, most of the people who came to Japan to study more than ten years ago did part-time while studying, and there were not as many rich people as there are now. Nowadays, many people can rely on their families and live a carefree life in Tokyo.
The growing number of Chinese students studying abroad has attracted widespread attention in Japan. Many Chinese in Japan are still doing business related to going abroad and moving to provide professional services to their compatriots.
This is also a "never-ending" people-to-people communication between the two neighbors of China and Japan.
No matter how the political situation changes, the connection between people has never stopped. Moreover, due to the changes in the world situation, Japan has also had a trend of "replacement" in Europe and the United States, and it is expected that the number of Chinese studying in Japan will continue to increase in the next few years.