| Region | Country | Academic Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | ||
| Asia (excluding Middle East) |
India | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Thailand | 5 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 16 | |
| Korea | 10 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 14 | |
| China | 7 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 21 | 14 | 13 | 6 | |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Viet Nam | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Indonesia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Malaysia | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Philippines | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Singapore | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Brunei | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
| Cambodia | 1 | ||||||||
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Nepal | 1 | ||||||||
| Myanmar | 1 | ||||||||
| Mongolia | 1 | ||||||||
| North America | United States of America | 56 | 46 | 82 | 54 | 65 | 57 | 74 | 73 |
| Canada | 12 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Latin America | Mexico | 1 | |||||||
| Brazil | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Europe | United Kingdom | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
| Germany | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 15 | |
| France | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 8 | |||
| Spain | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | ||
| Italy | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Switzerland | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Greece | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Croatia | 5 | ||||||||
| Austria | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Finland | 1 | ||||||||
| Belgium | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Czech | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Portugal | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Norway | 1 | ||||||||
| Denmark | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Iceland | |||||||||
| Ireland | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Russia | 1 | ||||||||
| Sweden | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Slovenia | 1 | ||||||||
| Poland | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Lithuania | 1 | ||||||||
| Romania | 1 | ||||||||
| Malta | 1 | ||||||||
| Montenegro | 1 | ||||||||
| Oceania | Australia | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | ||||||||
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Vanuatu | 1 | ||||||||
| Fiji | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Middle East | Turkey | 1 | |||||||
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| Africa | South Africa | 1 | |||||||
| Ethiopia | 1 | ||||||||
| Kenya | 1 | ||||||||
| Egypt | 1 | ||||||||
| Mali | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 115 | 145 | 185 | 142 | 148 | 178 | 160 | 195 | |
The Japanese academic year usually runs from 1 April to 31 March. It is designated by the calendar year in which the period begins.