Japan scholars urge fair treatment of foreign students over handouts
(WorldNews Japan)

A group of professors in Japan sent a petition to the education ministry Monday demanding it scrap `discriminatory` criteria for foreign students to be eligible for cash handouts to mitigate financial difficulties amid the coronavirus pandemic. The petition was launched by nearly 40 professors after the government decided not to treat foreign and Japanese students equally over the support program. Financially strapped Vietnamese students due to the coronavirus pandemic have supper at a Tokyo temple that is supporting such people on April 24, 2020. The virus-linked economic downturn has led to many foreign technical interns and part-timers being dismissed in Japan. (Kyodo) For foreigners to...