Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholarship for 2001
Research Student

The Monbusho (Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Government of Japan) offers scholarships to foreign students who wish to study at Japanese universities as research students under the Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholarship Program for 2001.

The deadline for applications: 4 August 2000.

FIELDS OF STUDY

  1. Humanities and Social Sciences:
    Literature, History, Aesthetics, Law, Politics, Economics, Commerce, Pedagogy, Psychology, Sociology, Music, Fine-Arts, etc.
  2. Natural Sciences:
    Pure Science, Engineering, Agriculture, Fisheries, Pharmacology, Medicine, Dentistry, Home Economics, etc.
  • Students majoring in medicine or dentistry shall not be allowed to carry out their clinical studies by conducting medical examinations or performing operations, unless they are permitted by the Minister of Health and Welfare under the provisions of the Japanese laws concerned.
  • Fields of study must be one of those available at Japanese universities. Practical training given by factories or companies is excluded.

QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Nationality: Applicants must be nationals of the Republic of Kazakhstan or the Kyrgyz Republic.
  2. Age: Applicants must be under 35 years of age as of 1 April 2001 (i.e. born on and after 2 April 1966).
  3. Academic Background: Applicants must be university or college graduates (Those who will graduate from a university or college by March or September 2001 may apply).
    Applicants wishing to enter a Master's Program must be college graduates and have completed 16 years of school education. If an applicant is from a country where the completion of 15 years of school education qualifies one to apply to a graduate school, he/she may apply if the Japanese graduate school recognizes his/her academic background as equivalent to that of the applicant who has completed 16 years of school education.
  4. Study Area: The study area must be in the same field as the applicant has studied (or is now studying) or a related one.
  5. Japanese Language: Applicants must (be willing to) study the Japanese language and (to) receive instruction in the Japanese language.
  6. Health: Applicants must have no infectious diseases. In view of expected psychological burden due to cultural and environmental changes, mental as well as physical health is an essential prerequisite.
  7. Arrival in Japan: Applicants must be able to leave for and arrive in Japan between 1 and 7 April 2001 or between 1 and 7 October 2001.
  8. Other: Applicants are requested to contact a professor of the Japanese university where he/she wishes to study and obtain a letter of acceptance.
  • Military personnel and military civilian employees registered on the active list are excluded.
  • The grants may be cancelled if grantees fail to arrive in Japan by the appointed date.
  • An applicant whose spouse has already won a Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholarship will not be selected as a grantee, and likewise in the case of a couple applying at the same time.
  • An applicant who was awarded a Japanese Government Scholarship in the past will not be selected as a grantee unless he/she has had a few years' research or teaching experience after returning to his/her home country.
    However, former "Japanese Studies" scholarship students may apply for admission to the Research Student Program once they have completed the undergraduate program after returning to their home country.
  • An applicant who is already enrolled in a Japanese university is not eligible to apply for admission.

TERM OF SCHOLARSHIP

Applicants may choose one of the following two categories:

  1. Two years from April 2001 to March 2003 for those who wish to study as non-degree students, i.e. research students (kenkyusei) or auditors (chokosei.) (For those whose proficiency of Japanese is insufficient to pursue their studies, the term includes usually 6 months of Japanese language learning.)
  2. One and a half years from October 2001 to March 2003 for those who wish to study as non-degree students, i.e. research students (kenkyusei) or auditors (chokosei.) (For those whose proficiency of Japanese is insufficient to pursue their studies, the term includes usually 6 months of Japanese language learning.)
  • An applicant for item (1) above will sometimes not be accepted due to the circumstances of the university; in such a case, the applicant may be considered one for item (2).
  • The grantee who will be admitted into Master's or Doctoral program of a graduate school during the term of scholarship will have his/her term of scholarship extended within the Monbusho budget, if he/she has made excellent results in his/her studies.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Application forms and other necessary documents should be submitted to the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Kazakhstan until 18:00, 4 August 2000.

Application forms and more information can be obtained from:

The Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Kazakhstan
41 Kazybek bi St., Almaty, Kazakhstan
tel: +7(3272)608600, fax: +7(3272)608601

Telephone numbers are changed as below starting from 1 June 2000.
tel: +7(3272)980600, fax: +7(3272)980601

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