This article challenges the notion that the ideas and strategies for foreign students designed in the report of the Council for the Asia Gateway Initiative at the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office have had a great impact on the subsequent strategies for foreign students formulated by the Education Rebuilding Council, by Prime Minister Fukuda’s Plan of 300,000 Foreign Students, and by the interim report of the Special Committee on Foreign Students of the Central Council on Education. The current investigation is based on the analysis of the major characteristics of the Asian Gateways Initiatives.
Next, the article studies the possibility and feasibility for UMAP to meet the needs of short-term student exchange programs which will emerge as the major programs of international education, instead of the current programs of sending students to other countries with the intention of obtaining the skills needed for national development in modern society.
Finally, the author makes concluding remarks emphasizing the new patterns of short-term student exchange programs in future Asian societies, as have emerged in EU countries.

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