Abstract: Past research on Chinese students in modern Japan were mostly from the perspective of revolutionary history and have taken the Chinese students who received“instant education”in private colleges as the subject. However，the Chinese government's policies for studying in Japan were intended to help Chinese students to study in national higher education institutions, taking the Imperial University as the apex, to receive both top and professional standard education. Digging through some new historical materials, this article examines the Chinese students in Japanese Colleges and preparatory schools of the Imperial University during the period of modern Japan; identifies the differences of the policies of studying abroad among Chinese government, Japanese government, and Japanese departments of education and diplomacy; and in conclusion, demonstrates the substantive characteristics of Chinese students' higher education in Japan from the educational history aspect．