Provider:
Government of Japan
Handler:
Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT).
Study Level:
Masters and Doctorate
Degree
Deadline:
March – June every
year.
Summary:
The
Japanese Government offers scholarships in Japan to international students who
wish to study at Japanese universities as research students under the Japanese
Government Scholarship Program. The scholarship program is administered by the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT).
To date,
some 79,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the
world have studied in Japan under the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho)
Scholarship program established in 1954. As of May 1, 2009, there were 10,168
foreign students studying in Japan as Japanese government scholarship students.
Field of Study:
Fields of
study must be subjects which applicants will be able to study and research at
Japanese universities.
Nations Covered:
The
scholarships are awarded to nationals of countries which has diplomatic
relations with the Japanese government.
Type of Scholarship:
It’s a full scholarship.
(1)
Allowance: Under the fiscal 2011 budget, each grantee will be provided monthly
with 150,000 yen (Research Student course), 152,000 yen (students enrolled in a
Master’s program or a professional degree program), or 153,000 yen (students
enrolled in a doctoral program) (an additional monthly stipend of 2,000 or 3,000
yen may be provided to those undertaking study or research in specially
designated regions) .However, these amounts are subject to change depending on
the annual budget of each year.
(2)
Traveling Costs
•
Transportation to Japan: Each grantee will be provided, according to his/her
itinerary and route as designated by MEXT, with an economy class air ticket
from the international airport closest to his/her place of residence to Narita
International Airport (or following the itinerary normally used by the university
where the grantee is placed). Expenses such as inland transportation from
his/her place of residence to the nearest international airport, airport tax,
airport usage charges, special taxes on overseas travel and travel expenses
within Japan will be borne by the grantee (the place of residence of the
grantee shall in principle be the address stated in the application form). Air
travel from a country other than the grantee’s nationality will not be covered,
nor travel to Japan before April 1, 2012. If the grantee comes to Japan to
obtain admission to a university, he/she will not be provided with traveling
cost to Japan.
•
Transportation from Japan: The grantee who returns to his/her home country
within the last-payment month of his/her scholarship will be provided, upon
application, with an economy class air ticket for a flight from Narita
International Airport (or following the itinerary normally used by the
university where the grantee is placed) to the international airport closest to
his/her place of return.
Note:
Insurance premiums for travel to/from Japan shall be borne by the grantee. The
airport the grantee departs from or returns to must be an airport of the
country of his/her nationality.
(3)
School Fees: Fees for matriculation, tuition and entrance examinations at a
university will be paid by the Japanese government. If the grantee moves on to
higher education as a non-regular student, he/she will pay for entrance
examinations.
Eligibility:
(1)
Nationality: Applicant must have the nationality of a country which has
diplomatic relations with the Japanese government. This applies at such times
to stateless persons, too. Applicant who has Japanese nationality at the time
of application will not be eligible. Applicant screening will be made at the
Japanese Embassy/Consulate General hereinafter referred to as the “Japanese
legation”) in the country of Applicant’s nationality (except where two or more
countries are attended by the same Japanese Embassy/Consulate General).
(2) Age:
Applicant must have been born on or after April 2,1977.
(3)
Academic Background: Applicant must be a graduate from a Japanese university or
have academic ability equal or superior to that of a Japanese university
graduate. A person will be deemed to have academic ability equal or superior to
that of a university graduate, if he/she
• has
completed or will complete a 16-year school curriculum in a foreign country (or
an 18-year school curriculum if he/she desires to enroll in a doctoral course
in the field of medicine, dentistry or veterinary science, or pharmacy which is
founded on a 6-year department or faculty); or
• is or
will be aged 22 or older and has taken an individual entrance qualification
examination and has been judged by a graduate school as being equal or superior
in academic ability to a university graduate (or 24 or older if he/she desires
to enroll in a doctoral course in the field of medicine, dentistry or
veterinary science, or pharmacy which is founded on a 6-year department or
faculty).
Note:
Eligible applicants include those who otherwise satisfy or will satisfy
qualification requirements for admission to a Japanese graduate school. As a
general rule, a person who has completed a doctoral course may not apply unless
he/she seeks to obtain a degree.
(4) Major
Field of Study: Applicant should apply for the field of study he/she studied at
the previous university or any related field. Applicant must choose a field on
which he/she can receive education and perform research at the university of
his/her choice.
(5)
Japanese Language: Applicant must be willing to learn the Japanese language,
interested in Japan and enthusiastic about deepening his/her understanding of
Japan after arriving, and capable of engaging in study and research while
adapting himself/herself to life in Japan.
(6)
Health: Applicant must be physically and mentally healthy enough to pursue
study at university.
(7)
Arrival in Japan: Applicant must be able to leave for and arrive in Japan
between the 1st and 7th of April 2012, or within two weeks of the date set by
the receiving university for the beginning of the semester (in principle, in
September or October). Travel expenses will not be provided if the Applicant is
unable to travel to Japan during this set period.
(8) Visa
Requirement: Selected Applicants must obtain a College Student visa prior to
his arrival in Japan.
Applicants
who are already in Japan under a visa other than College Student are required
to change it to College Student by the end of the month preceding the start of
the scholarship. Applicants who change their resident status to any status
other than “College Student” after their arrival in Japan will immediately lose
their status as a Japanese government scholarship student.
(9) Scholarships will not be awarded in the following cases:
• The
Applicant is an active member of the military or a civilian employed by the
military
• The
Applicant is unable to travel to Japan within the dates set by the receiving
university
• The
Applicant was a grantee of a Japanese Government Scholarship in the past will
not be selected unless he/she has had at least three years of research or
teaching experience after completion of the first scholarship. This exclusion
will not apply to a research-student applicant, who (i) as a foreign student in
Japan received training in the Japanese language and/or Japanese culture at a
university and graduated from it, or who (ii) was a foreign student in Japan
under the Japan-Korea Joint Science and Engineering Students Exchange Program.
• The
Applicant is currently enrolled in a Japanese university under the resident
status of “College Student,” or if he/she plans to enroll at a Japanese
university as a privately-financed foreign student between the time of
application for this scholarship and the time the scholarship period is due to
begin.
• The
Applicant is already the recipient of a scholarship from an organization
(including a governmental organization in his/her country of origin) other than
the Japanese government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology – MEXT).
• The
Applicant, considered a “future graduate” and selected as such, is unable to
graduate within the pre-set date or unable to fulfill graduation requirements.
Scholarship
recipients are recruited and initially screened by a Japanese embassy (or
consulate general, depending on the country).
Website:
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the respective website of the scholarship for comprehensive information. In
areas you don’t understand, contact the relevant Contact Person via email on
the scholarship website. You may as well contact us, but we may not have the complete
information like the scholarship providers. Thank you.
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