On June 2023, 6, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced that restrictions on increasing the number of university students in the 9 wards of Tokyo would be imposed in order to curb the overconcentration of the younger generation in Tokyo. We have issued a partial revision to the joint order that exempts all of the above, and notified in writing to prefectural governors nationwide, mayors of ordinance-designated cities, presidents of national, public and private universities, and presidents of educational corporations that establish universities and colleges of technology. .
According to the Cabinet Office, the notification is in the name of Hirohisa Tanno, Director-General of the Cabinet Office's Regional Revitalization Promotion Secretariat, and Takashiro Ikeda, Director-General of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Higher Education Bureau.Universities in Tokyo's 23 wards continue to curb increases in student enrollment, but the Cabinet Office issued a cabinet order to exclude information-related faculties and departments, citing the urgent need to develop highly-skilled digital human resources. The Ordinance of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology was revised.
He pointed out that the conditions to be excluded from the target are those that contribute to the development of human resources for the Basic Law for the Formation of a Digital Society and fall under the fields of science or engineering.In order to prevent this measure from accelerating the overconcentration in Tokyo, we are also asking for cooperation with areas other than the Tokyo metropolitan area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba prefectures).
Restrictions on university enrollment in the 23 wards of Tokyo are being implemented as a temporary measure until the 2028 academic year.There were signs that the influx into Tokyo's 23 wards was temporarily halted due to the corona crisis, but as the corona crisis subsided and travel restrictions were eased, the influx accelerated again.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the population movement report based on the Basic Resident Register for 2022 shows that Tokyo will have a surplus of about 3 people moving in, and the number of surpluses is expanding.
