Key facts
- International students in Japan spent $4.3 billion, a figure the report did not break down or date.
- Lower tuition and living expenses in Japan helped widen the gap with Japanese students overseas, the report said.
- The number of international students in Japan had risen 21% from a year earlier, per one survey in May 2025.
International students in Japan spent more as their numbers grew, helped partly by the weak yen, while rising costs continued to limit growth in the number of Japanese studying abroad, Nikkei reported on November 5, 2026.
The report put foreign-student spending in Japan at $4.3 billion. It said lower tuition and living expenses in Japan compared with other destinations helped widen the gap with Japanese students overseas.
In May 2025, the number of international students in Japan had risen by 21% from a year earlier, according to one survey cited in the report. The article did not name the survey or give the spending total's comparison period.