As Professor Tsai points out, ever since 1983, when then-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, following calls for greater internationalization, announced his intention to increase the number of foreign students in Japan to 100,000 over the next ten years, Japanese language schools have sprouted up in Tokyo like mushrooms after a long rain.
他指出，自從一九八三年，日本前首相中曾根康弘，為因應呼聲日高的國際化要求，而計畫於十年內，將留日學生人數擴增至十萬人以後，東京地區以外國人為經營對象的日本語學校，即如雨後春筍般產生。