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Agreement on Japan's tuition-free program

(From L) Japan Innovation Party chief Hirofumi Yoshimura, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who leads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Komeito party leader Tetsuo Saito pose for a photo after formally agreeing on measures to ensure free high school education and advance social security reforms in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2025.

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Agreement on Japan's tuition-free program

Japan Innovation Party chief Hirofumi Yoshimura speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who leads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Komeito party chief Tetsuo Saito in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2025. The three party leaders formalized a tripartite agreement on measures to ensure free high school education and advance social security reforms.

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Agreement on Japan's tuition-free program

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C), leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a meeting with Japan Innovation Party chief Hirofumi Yoshimura (far L) and Komeito party chief Tetsuo Saito (far R) in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2025. The three party leaders formalized a tripartite agreement on measures to ensure free high school education and advance social security reforms.

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Agreement on Japan's tuition-free program

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a meeting with Japan Innovation Party chief Hirofumi Yoshimura and Komeito party chief Tetsuo Saito in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2025. The three party leaders formalized a tripartite agreement on measures to ensure free high school education and advance social security reforms.

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Agreement on Japan's tuition-free program

Komeito party leader Tetsuo Saito speaks during a meeting with Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japan Innovation Party chief Hirofumi Yoshimura in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2025. The three party leaders formalized the tripartite agreement on measures to ensure free high school education and advance social security reforms.

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Public Sector Workers Protest - Toulouse

Students around a banner Free university for all, resources for the university. Increase salaries, not tuition fees. The civil service is on strike across France. Strike and demonstration, schools, hospitals, public services, energy in Toulouse. France, Toulouse December 5, 2024. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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School at BRI-backed economic zone in Cambodia offers talents professional skills, language proficiency

STORY: School at BRI-backed economic zone in Cambodia offers talents professional skills, language proficiency SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 21, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:08 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Sihanoukville Special Economy Zone (SSEZ) 2. various of the Sihanoukville Institute of Business and Technology (SIBT) 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): EIV THUNA, Sophomore in business management, SIBT 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Khmer): KHOEUN SREYNOT, Senior in logistics management, SIBT 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): SENG SOTHAN, Cambodian lecturer of economics, SIBT 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): LI CHUANBIN, Executive principal, SIBT STORYLINE: Situated in the Sihanoukville Special Economy Zone (SSEZ) in southwest Cambodia, the Sihanoukville Institute of Business and Technology (SIBT) has been playing an important role in nurturing talents for the Southeast Asian country, providing students with professional skills and language proficiency. The tuition-free SIBT is a university-level scho

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Japan to raise income cap for higher education aid

STORY: Japan to raise income cap for higher education aid DATELINE: April 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY/EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of cityscape in Tokyo STORYLINE: Japan's education ministry said Tuesday that it will raise the income cap for a public financial aid plan to help pay for higher education. The move, aimed at expanding support for middle-income households with multiple children, is slated to begin in fiscal 2024. The eligibility cap will be raised to an annual household income of 6 million yen (45,512 U.S. dollars) from the current 3.8 million yen, while the number of eligible students is expected to increase by about 200,000. The plan, a combination of tuition reduction and scholarships, was included in the Japanese government's draft of "unprecedented measures" to tackle the country's declining birthrate, which was announced last week. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tokyo. (XHTV)

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Financial burden heavy on poor university students

SAPPORO, Tokyo - Kazuya Fujishima, a founder of an organization to help students legally resolve issues related to tuition and scholarships, explains the financial struggle of poor students at Hokkaido University campus in Sapporo on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Oct. 28, 2014. Over 1.3 million university students receive scholarships and other financial aid due to the long economic slump that their parents are going through.

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Fukushima Univ. to waive tuition for disaster-hit students

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima University President Osamu Nittono (L), at a press conference in the city of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2011, said the university will waive tuition and enrollment fees for students severely affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster, from the next academic year starting in April 2012.

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Tents in Trafalgar Square

LONDON, Britain - Photo shows tents set up on Nov. 9, 2011, in London's Trafalgar Square by students opposing university tuition fee increases. Police soon removed the tents and arrested about 20 people.

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Gov't to provide tuition waivers to pro-Pyongyang schools

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Yoshiaki Takaki holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. Takaki said he was asked by Prime Minister Naoto Kan earlier in the day to resume screening procedures to provide tuition waivers to pro-Pyongyang high schools in Japan. The procedures have been frozen since a North Korean artillery attack on a South Korean island last November.

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S. Korean college students' fees protest

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean college students hold a demonstration demanding lower tuition fees in central Seoul on June 10, 2011.

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S. Korean college students' fees protest

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean college students hold a demonstration demanding lower tuition fees in central Seoul on June 10, 2011.

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S. Korean female college students' fees protest

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean female college students hold a demonstration demanding lower tuition fees in an entertainment district in central Seoul on June 4, 2011.

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N. Korea urges Japan to include Korean schools in tuition aid

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang on April 17, 2010. Song urged Japan to include pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan in a tuition waiver program for high school students ''as early as possible.''

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Child allowances, tuition-free schools bills pass lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Tatsuo Kawabata bows at a plenary session of the House of Representatives after the lower house passed a bill to make tuition free for public senior high school students in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The government expects the bill, along with a bill to provide monthly allowances to families raising children, to clear the House of Councillors by the end of the month.

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Child allowances, tuition-free schools bills pass lower house

TOKYO, Japan - A plenary session of the House of Representatives passes a bill to make tuition free for public senior high school students in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The government expects the bill, along with a bill to provide monthly allowances to families raising children, to clear the House of Councillors by the end of the month.

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Signature collection for N. Korea-linked schools

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Students of North Korea-linked junior and senior high schools for Korean residents of Japan collect signatures in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on March 11, 2010. The schoolgirls took part in a rally to drum up support for the inclusion of such schools in a proposed government tuition waiver program.

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Korean schools urge gov't not to exclude them from program

TOKYO, Japan - Choe In Tae (C), vice chairman of the Conference of Principals of Korean High Schools in Japan, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo's Yurakucho on March 2, 2010. Choe, also the principal of a pro-Pyongyang high school in Ibaraki Prefecture, urged the government not to exclude such schools from a planned program to make high schools tuition-free.

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean schools unlikely to be tuition-free: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama answers questions from reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2010. The premier suggested the same day that pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents are unlikely to be covered by a proposed tuition fee exemption program due to difficulties checking their curriculum against Japanese guidelines.

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean schools unlikely to be tuition-free: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Principals of pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents and parents whose children go to such schools attend a press conference at the Diet building on Feb. 25, 2010 as they protest the government's move not to grant a proposed tuition fee exemption program for senior high schools in Japan. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama suggested the same day that such pro-Pyongyang schools are unlikely to be covered by the program due to difficulties checking their curriculum against Japanese guidelines.

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Ex-Nova boss Sahashi arrested for alleged embezzlement

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka prefectural police search the headquarters of bankrupt Nova Corp. in Chuo Ward in Osaka on June 24 in connection with the arrest the same day of Nozomu Sahashi, former Nova president, on suspicion of diverting around 320 million yen in July from an employee benefit fund to reimburse tuition fees to people who canceled contracts for language courses. Nova was once the nation's largest chain of English conversation schools.

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Court orders colleges to return prepaid tuition

KYOTO, Japan - Yuko Adachi (R) and her mother Atsuko speak to reporters at the Kyoto District Court on July 16 after the court ruled in favor of their suit, ordering Kyoto Women's University and other colleges to return prepaid tuition to applicants who chose not to take up a place at the colleges. The court said that the consumer contracts law covers university tuition fees paid in advance.

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Cassava business becomes means of livelihood for Cameroonian women

STORY: Cassava business becomes means of livelihood for Cameroonian women DATELINE: Nov. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 0:07:43 LOCATION: MENGONG, Cameroon CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of cassava related footage and local women processing cassava 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SYLVIE MEWOULOU, Local villager 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): MARIE JOSEPH, Local villager 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): HONORINE NDONGO, Local villager STORYLINE: Cassava is a traditional food crop at a village in Mengong town in southern Cameroon. Growing and processing cassava have become important means of livelihood for local villagers, especially the women who are trying to be economically independent. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SYLVIE MEWOULOU, Local villager "Cassava helps us a lot. People get sick, then they get treatment with money earned from selling cassava. We eat cassava, we pay tontine with money earned from cassava. There are a lot of things in my life. Everything I do in the village is based on cassava. We pay for our children's tuition, fe

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Rising college cost, teacher shortage vexing for Americans

STORY: Rising college cost, teacher shortage vexing for Americans DATELINE: Sept. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: DALLAS, U.S. CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of school 2. various of school bus 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): TRACY FISHER, School board member from Coppell ISD STORYLINE: The cost of a college education in the United States has risen exponentially over the last few decades. Data from College Board showed the average annual cost of public universities is 22,690 U.S. dollars for in-state students and 39,510 dollars for out-of-state students. That figure was only 1,410 dollars per year in 1971. Aside from rising college tuition, the country is also facing a growing shortage of primary and secondary school teachers. School districts across the country have teacher shortfalls ranging from hundreds to thousands. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has been putting additional pressure on educators since early 2020. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): TRACY FISHER, School board member from Coppell ISD "Ou

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Xinjiang, My home: Butcher shop owner's happy big family

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: Butcher shop owner's happy big family DATELINE: June 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Amangul's daily life STORYLINE: Amangul, a butcher shop owner in Hutubi County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has a big happy family with four children. Here's their story. My name is Amangul. I run a beef and mutton shop with my husband. Wake your dad up. Dad, time to get up! I'm up. I'm up. Kids, food is ready. How's the exam? I got the first place in school. We have four children. I am the oldest. My name is Yiblahim. I'm in sixth grade. I'm the second child in my family. My name is Abdulla. I am in grade four this year. Our youngest children are twins. They are six years old. They are in the kindergarten. After the twins went to kindergarten, we opened a beef and mutton shop downstairs. It's easier to take care of the kids, and it brings extra income to the family. Tuition and books for all our four children

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Ukrainian evacuees allowed to study at southwestern Japan university

Ukrainian students who arrived in Japan after evacuating from Russian military attacks listen to Ukraine's national anthem during a ceremony for new students at the Japan University of Economics in the Fukuoka Prefecture city of Chikushino, southwestern Japan, on April 12, 2022. About 60 students studying Japanese language at Kyiv National Linguistic University, an academic partner of the Japanese university, located in the nearby city of Dazaifu, are allowed to study there for about one year tuition-free.

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Ukrainian evacuees allowed to study at southwestern Japan university

Ukrainian students who arrived in Japan after evacuating from Russian military attacks attend a ceremony for new students at the Japan University of Economics in the Fukuoka Prefecture city of Chikushino, southwestern Japan, on April 12, 2022. About 60 students studying Japanese language at Kyiv National Linguistic University, an academic partner of the Japanese university, located in the nearby city of Dazaifu, are allowed to study there for about one year tuition-free.

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Ukrainian evacuees allowed to study at southwestern Japan university

Ukrainian students who arrived in Japan after evacuating from Russian military attacks attend a ceremony for new students at the Japan University of Economics in the Fukuoka Prefecture city of Chikushino, southwestern Japan, on April 12, 2022. About 60 students studying Japanese language at Kyiv National Linguistic University, an academic partner of the Japanese university, located in the nearby city of Dazaifu, are allowed to study there for about one year tuition-free.

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ACTING AND SPEECH TUITION FOR THE TALKIES IN 1928

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Ex-Nova boss Sahashi arrested for alleged embezzlement

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka prefectural police search the headquarters of bankrupt Nova Corp. in Chuo Ward in Osaka on June 24 in connection with the arrest the same day of Nozomu Sahashi, former Nova president, on suspicion of diverting around 320 million yen in July from an employee benefit fund to reimburse tuition fees to people who canceled contracts for language courses. Nova was once the nation's largest chain of English conversation schools. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea urges Japan to include Korean schools in tuition aid

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang on April 17, 2010. Song urged Japan to include pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan in a tuition waiver program for high school students ''as early as possible.'' (Kyodo)

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Child allowances, tuition-free schools bills pass lower house

TOKYO, Japan - A plenary session of the House of Representatives passes a bill to make tuition free for public senior high school students in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The government expects the bill, along with a bill to provide monthly allowances to families raising children, to clear the House of Councillors by the end of the month. (Kyodo)

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Child allowances, tuition-free schools bills pass lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Tatsuo Kawabata bows at a plenary session of the House of Representatives after the lower house passed a bill to make tuition free for public senior high school students in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The government expects the bill, along with a bill to provide monthly allowances to families raising children, to clear the House of Councillors by the end of the month. (Kyodo)

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Gov't to provide tuition waivers to pro-Pyongyang schools

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Yoshiaki Takaki holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. Takaki said he was asked by Prime Minister Naoto Kan earlier in the day to resume screening procedures to provide tuition waivers to pro-Pyongyang high schools in Japan. The procedures have been frozen since a North Korean artillery attack on a South Korean island last November. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean college students' fees protest

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean college students hold a demonstration demanding lower tuition fees in central Seoul on June 10, 2011. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean college students' fees protest

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean college students hold a demonstration demanding lower tuition fees in central Seoul on June 10, 2011. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean female college students' fees protest

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean female college students hold a demonstration demanding lower tuition fees in an entertainment district in central Seoul on June 4, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Korean schools urge gov't not to exclude them from program

TOKYO, Japan - Choe In Tae (C), vice chairman of the Conference of Principals of Korean High Schools in Japan, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo's Yurakucho on March 2, 2010. Choe, also the principal of a pro-Pyongyang high school in Ibaraki Prefecture, urged the government not to exclude such schools from a planned program to make high schools tuition-free. (Kyodo)

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Signature collection for N. Korea-linked schools

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Students of North Korea-linked junior and senior high schools for Korean residents of Japan collect signatures in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on March 11, 2010. The schoolgirls took part in a rally to drum up support for the inclusion of such schools in a proposed government tuition waiver program. (Kyodo)

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean schools unlikely to be tuition-free: Hatoyam

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama answers questions from reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2010. The premier suggested the same day that pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents are unlikely to be covered by a proposed tuition fee exemption program due to difficulties checking their curriculum against Japanese guidelines. (Kyodo)

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean schools unlikely to be tuition-free: Hatoyam

TOKYO, Japan - Principals of pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents and parents whose children go to such schools attend a press conference at the Diet building on Feb. 25, 2010 as they protest the government's move not to grant a proposed tuition fee exemption program for senior high schools in Japan. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama suggested the same day that such pro-Pyongyang schools are unlikely to be covered by the program due to difficulties checking their curriculum against Japanese guidelines. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima Univ. to waive tuition for disaster-hit students

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima University President Osamu Nittono (L), at a press conference in the city of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2011, said the university will waive tuition and enrollment fees for students severely affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster, from the next academic year starting in April 2012. (Kyodo)

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Tents in Trafalgar Square

LONDON, Britain - Photo shows tents set up on Nov. 9, 2011, in London's Trafalgar Square by students opposing university tuition fee increases. Police soon removed the tents and arrested about 20 people. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

College student Marika Yamagishi (C), who leads a campaign to seek state financing of half of tuition for all university students amid the coronavirus pandemic, speaks to the media in Tokyo on April 30, 2020, after handing more than 10,000 signatures to senior vice education minister Yoshitami Kameoka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Members of a university student group advocating free tuition at Japanese colleges hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 22, 2020, to call for a cut in tuition for students losing revenues from part-time working amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exclusion of Korean schools from Japan's tuition-free program

Parents whose children go to Korean schools in Japan meet with education ministry officials (front) in Tokyo on June 7, 2019, during a protest against the government's exclusion of pro-Pyongyang Korean schools from a tuition waiver program that covers most high schools in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exclusion of Korean schools from Japan's tuition-free program

People protest near the Japanese education ministry headquarters in Tokyo on April 26, 2019, against the government's exclusion of pro-Pyongyang Korean schools from a tuition waiver program that covers most high schools in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean school in Tokyo

The pro-Pyongyang Tokyo Korean Junior and Senior High School opens classes to the public on Nov. 17, 2018, in a bid to gain public understanding of the school excluded from the Japanese government's tuition-free high school education program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo