The post-secondary education business has entered dire straits in Japan. With the ever declining birth rate, schools across the nation are struggling to keep enrollments up.
In Fukuoka, Nishi-Nippon Junior College believes it has an attractive solution to this problem: the “Department of Media Promotion,” more casually referred to as the “Idol Training Department.”

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