Foreign students return / Support for foreign students helps them adjust

Jasper Lam provides consultation services to a foreign student on July 15. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Sarah Welch, 37, could not believe the sentence she found on a real estate website while searching for a place to live in Japan. Welch, a Briton, came to Japan in late March to study at Kai Japanese Language School. She was searching for a home while she stayed in a hotel.

She browsed information written in Japanese by using translation software and found the phrase, "No foreign nationals."