Around 16,500 students travel to Ireland each year to study English. In this report, 34 students from Immaculate Heart University in Kagoshima, Japan, spend a month in Dublin attending classes at the Language Centre of Ireland on Grafton Street , the third group from their university to do so. (TRNGL)

Basketball is booming in Japan. The national team has competed in back-to-back Olympics for the first time since the 1970s. (News On Japan)