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日本ファクトチェックセンター(JFC)Education

中国人留学生は学費がほぼ無料?

Publisher’s rating: 不正確

The claim concerns whether Chinese students studying in Japan generally receive tuition-free education. The Japan Fact-Check Center (JFC) examined the claim as it appeared in widely shared social-media posts, including a TikTok video posted on September 25, 2025. That video asserted that moving to Japan could make university education “almost free”; other posts alleged that Chinese students obtained tuition waivers by claiming financial hardship. JFC’s review distinguishes the existence of tuition-support programs from the much broader claim that Chinese students generally benefit from them. JFC consulted Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) enrollment data and information from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). It reports that government-funded international students are exempt from entrance and tuition fees, but that only 9,304 of the 336,708 international students in the 2024 figures were government-funded—about 2.8%. Of those government-funded students, 617 were Chinese, or 6.6%. The review also says the 2024 count of Chinese international students was 123,485. These figures indicate that government-funded tuition waivers applied to a small minority, not to Chinese international students as a group. The review also addresses a separate higher-education support scheme based on financial need. It says eligibility rules limit who can receive that support, and that MEXT did not have a nationality-specific count for Chinese recipients. For the 2024 fiscal year, the review reports 1,644 foreign-national new recipients under the scheme, of whom 113 received support through the “Dependent” residence-status category. Because the available figures do not identify how many were Chinese, they cannot establish that Chinese students broadly obtain tuition waivers through this route. JFC concludes that most Chinese international students pay tuition and that the claim overstates the reach of support programs.

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