In Japan, Protection or Prejudice?

Government slashes number of visas issued to Chinese students

Graphic: Foreign Students in JapanBy ALAN BRENDER

Last June the bodies of a 41-year-old clothing merchant in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, his wife, and their 8-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son were pulled out of a nearby bay. Three Chinese college students studying in Japan were charged with the murders, allegedly having confessed that they had chosen the victims in an extortion scheme based on the

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