Foreign nursing school students in north Japan to get scholarships

Chen Wan-xuan, a foreign student from Taiwan, raises a spoonful of salad to the mouth of an elderly Japanese resident of a nursing home in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, as she speaks quietly to him."Please eat this slowly," the caregiver says in clear Japanese to the man in his 90s. "It's delicious," he replies, breaking into a smile after chewing the finely sliced radish salad.Chen, 28, is one of a number of foreign students in Hokkaido municipalities who will receive loan-based scholarships this spring of 2.5 million yen (about $23,000) per year for their caregiving work in regional areas facing s…READ FULL ARTICLE