Japan varsities eye Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 -- Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia Dr Makio Miyagawa during a special interview with Bernama on the first ever overseas branch campus of a Japanese university is highly likely to be set up in Malaysia today.Japanese universities had never established any overseas branch campuses but Japans Ministry of Education recently changed the policy which was inspired by a request from Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.--fotoBERNAMA (2018) COPY RIGHTS RESERVED

KUALA LUMPUR: Japan’s Educa­tion Ministry has amended its policy to allow for its universities to set up branch campuses overseas, and Malaysia will likely be the first country to have a Tsukuba Univer­sity branch.

Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia Dr Makio Miyagawa (pic) said as a policy, Japanese universities had never established any overseas branch campuses before, but this was changed recently following a request from Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.