International outlook pays off as Japan holds its ground

They're not 'internationalising' their campuses - or Japanese Higher Education more broadly - in any recognisable sense. The foreign students are concentrated mainly in specific foreign-oriented (pun intended) institutions; and their presence in the more established ones is almost non-existent outside of specially-created foreign-programme faculties. The limited presence of Japanese students in these same places throws greater doubt on how effective this has been at anything other than gaming the rankings methodologies.