Applicants may choose one of the following three categories:

1. Wishing to enroll as a non-degree student (such as a research student) for i) two years from April 2003 to March 2005 or ii) one year and six months from October 2003 to March 2005 (including a half year of Japanese language training period.).

2. Wishing to enroll in a master's course, subject to enrolling as a non-degree student first, for two years from April 2003 to March 2005 or one year and six months from October 2003 to March 2005 (including a half year of Japanese language training period), and permitted to enter the master's course during the tenure.

3. Wishing to enroll in a doctoral course, subject to enrolling as a non-degree student first, for two years from April 2003 to March 2005 or one year and six months from October 2003 to March 2005 (including a half year of Japanese language training period), and permitted to enter the doctoral course within one year after arriving in Japan.
   cf. i) Even if you wish to study in April, your arrival may be delayed in October because of university placement.
   ii) For those who have been permitted to enter in a regular course of graduate schools (whether Master's or Doctoral) and have excellent academic records, their durations could be extended upon the judgment within the budget.

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1. Allowance: 184,000 yen (will be changed in 2003. It might also be a case of rearrangement) per month will be given to each grantee during the term of his/her scholarship. Please notice that the scholarship will be suspended in a case a grantee is long absent from the university.

2. Transportation:

   1. Transportation to Japan : The grantee will be supplied, according to his/her itinerary as designated by MEXT, with a tourist class air ticket from the international airport nearest to his/her home address to the New Tokyo International Airport (or the international airport nearest to the university he/she is placed, on condition that it is less expensive to arrive at that airport).

   2. Transportation from Japan : The grantee who is going back to his/her home country within the fixed period after the expiration of the scholarship will be supplied, upon application, with a tourist class air ticket from the New Tokyo International Airport (or the international airport nearest to the university at which he/she studied, on condition that it is less expensive to leave from that airport) to the international airport nearest to his/her home address.

   *Any aviation and accident insurance to and from Japan shall be borne by the applicant.

3. Arrival Allowance: The sum of 25,000 yen will be given to the grantee on arrival.

4. School Fees: Fees for the entrance examination, matriculation and tuition at universities will be compensated by Government of Japan.

5. Accommodations:

   1. The Foreign Student Houses, operated by the Association of International Education, Japan
      The grantees enrolled at universities in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe district may reside, if they so desire, at one of the Foreign Student Houses, operated by the Association of International Education, Japan.
      However, the capacity of these dormitories is not yet large enough to accommodate all of the students who wish to reside there.

   2. Residence halls for foreign students established by national universities.
      At present about 90 national universities have residence halls for foreign students. The grantees enrolled at universities where such facilities are available may reside, if they so desire, at these residence halls according to certain conditions.
      However, at some of these facilities, the capacity is not yet large enough to accommodate all the students who wish to reside there.

   3. Private boarding houses or apartments.
      Those who are not able to find accommodations in the above facilities will have to live in dormitories of the university or in private boarding houses or apartments introduced by the university.

6. Students may receive subvention for part of the medical expenses in Japan.
   
   *The allowance, special housing service and subventions mentioned in the above items 3, 5-a, and 6 are carried out by the Association of International Education, Japan (AIEJ). AIEJ, founded in 1957, runs foreign student houses in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe, and performs various activities for foreign students in cooperation with MEXT and universities in Japan.

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The main stream of selection is as follows:

1. Those who have academic excellency and who are sufficiently expected to be a brilliant student to play an active role in their homeland in the future.

2. A concrete and outstanding research planning.

3. In the fields which need ability of Japanese language, those who have sufficient ability to pursue their study.

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1. The Japanese Embassy will, in cooperation with the foreign governments concerned, select preliminary candidates from among applicants by means of an interview and a review of the submitted documents.

2. Results of preliminary screening will be announced on the date designated by Japanese Embassy/Consulate General.

3. Those who have been selected as the preliminary candidates will be recommended to MEXT. MEXT will choose tentative grantees through a screening committee. The scholarship grantee will be finally selected after the university placement has been made.
   
   *In principle, applicants who wish to pursue such fields of study as Japanese linguistics, Japanese literature, Japanese history, Japanese laws, etc., will not be selected as grantees unless they have enough knowledge of the Japanese language to follow these courses.
   
   **As a part of the preliminary selection, an assessment test in Japanese will be given to all the applicants.

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1. Placement of grantees to universities will be made by MEXT after consultation with the universities concerned. No objection by the grantee shall be made referring to the university placement.

2. All lectures, experiments and practical training at universities are principally conducted in Japanese.

3. A grantee whose knowledge of Japanese language is insufficient will be placed to the language training course for the first six months after arrival in Japan. Those who have completed the language course will be transferred to the university chosen by MEXT for their major studies. However, grantees whose achievement in the Japanese language training course is unsatisfactory and is evaluated as insufficient to conduct his studies at the university will be deprived of their scholarships. (cf. 9-(2))

4. A grantee whose knowledge of the Japanese language, at the time of application, is recognized by MEXT as sufficient to conduct his/her studies may be placed at a university without a preparatory course for Japanese language.

5. A grantee will be usually enrolled in a university as a non-degree student, with a status of such as a research student, an auditor and so on.

6. Those who wish to enter master's or doctoral program of a graduate school must sit for and pass the entrance examination imposed by the university concerned after having studied at least for six months as non-degree research students. Failure in the examination will result in re- enrollment as non-degree research students.
   

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8. APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Applicants must submit the following documents to the Japanese Embassy/Consulate General by the appointed date. The documents submitted will not be returned.

		(Original)	(Copy)
(1)	Application for Admission (prescribed forms)	2
	Application (Annex) by the prescribed form	1
	Field of Study and Study Program	2
(2)	Photographs of passport size (6 X 4 cm) taken within the past six months (should be pasted on the application forms and Annex)	3
(3)	Certified academic record of university attended (to be issued by the university authorities)	1	1
(4)	Recommendation from the university president or dean, or academic advisor	1	1
(5)	Recommendation from the present employer (in addition to from(4) listed above, if employed)	1	1
(6)	Medical certificate on the prescribed form (to be issued by the medical institution designated by the Japanese Embassy/Consulate General)	1	1
(7)	Photocopy of the university diploma, or of certificate of degree		1
(8)	Abstracts of the theses	1
(9)	Photograph showing applicant's own works of art or a recorded tape of musical performance (only for those majoring in fine arts or music)		1
*	These documents must be written in either Japanese or English, or accompanied by a translation in either of these languages.
**	No application will be accepted unless all the documents mentioned above are fully and correctly completed.
***	Applicants are requested to submit a letter of acceptance which was obtained in the above paragraph 2(8) along with his/her application.

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9. NOTES

1. More detailed information on this scholarship program is available at the Japanese Embassy/Consulate General.

2. A grantee will be deprived of his/her scholarship in any of the following cases:
   

   1. A false statement has been made on his/her application dossiers.
   
   
   
   2. He/she violates any article of his/her pledge to the Monbukagaku-daijin (the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology).
   
   
   
   3. He/she has been subjected to disciplinary action by the university or has no prospect for academic achievement (e.g. failure to achieve a satisfactory level in the Japanese language or in his/her major subjects).
   
   
   
   4. His/Her status has been changed into another one than "College Student."

3. A grantee is advised to learn Japanese language and to have some information on Japanese climate, customs and manners, and university education and conditions in general before coming to Japan.

4. It is highly recommended that a grantee should bring approximately US $1,000 or the equivalent to cover immediate needs after arrival in Japan.

5. It will be very difficult to find housing for dependents of students. i.e. spouses and children.

6. The amounts of the allowance and the arrival allowance described in Section 4 are subject to budgetary condition and they may be under rearrangement.

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