Int'l education at hand for mainland students

One Japanese school, J.F. Oberlin University, has had an interesting connection with China since it opened in 1946: it was established by a Christian missionary, Shimizu Yasuzo, who also set up the Chongzhen Girls School, in Beijing, in 1921.

Over time, J.F. Oberlin has evolved into a modern, international institution, with a sprawling campus in Tokyo's Machida district.

And it has a student body to match. Nearly 700 of its 8,500 students come from abroad, many of them from China, where the school has partnerships with 25 institutions of higher learning.