Foreign students in Japan hold back on applying for newly created visas due to past illegal overwork www.japantimes.co.jp

He has given up working in Japan with the new working visa and plans to go back to his home country.
According to the Japan Student Services Organization, the number of foreign students totaled some 299,000 as of 2018, 2.4 times higher than a decade ago.
Several foreign students said there are cases of students working more than permitted — despite knowing that it is illegal — for various reasons, such as being unable to gain assistance from parents or being in debt.
“There is not one foreign student around me who is working only 28 hours,” said a 26-year-old Nepalese student in Nagoya.
Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Sato said: “Instead of placing responsibility only on foreign students, we should focus more on structural problems.”This section features topics and issues from the Chubu region covered by the Chunichi Shimbun.