By Wu Chi-che 吳其哲The dwindling number of Taiwanese students studying Japanese is lamentable, while the speed of this decline is dizzying. It then provides cross-language analysis between Chinese, Japanese and English so that students can simultaneously study all three. By choosing Japanese, students free up time to prepare other subjects. For China, young Chinese can only study in Japan on student visas, so their only option is to first master Japanese at home. According to Japan Student Services Organization data, Chinese students constitute 40.2 percent of all international students in Japan, whereas Taiwanese account for 3.3 percent.

Source: Taipei Times November 08, 2019 16:06 UTC