International Scholarship HISF

the Honjo International Scholarship Foundation has been established to provide scholarships to bright students who are struggling to study under different conditions in developing nations as well as to those Japanese students studying abroad, to help them learn advanced technologies and improve their good intentions will serve as a bridge connecting Japan with the rest of the world in culture and mutual friendships.

The Foundation's focus is on those bright students who have the potential to become outstanding leaders in developing nations in the future, to whom the Foundation provides scholarship in the hope that such nations will develop in peace.


Requirements for applicants
１．An applicant must be a non-Japanese national studying at a Japanese graduate school.
２．An applicant studying for a doctor's degree must be born after March 31, 1973 and an applicant for a master's degree must be born after March 31, 1978.
３．An applicant must be able to manage his/her daily activities in Japanese.
４．No successful applicant is allowed to receive any other Scholarship or work part-time.
５．An applicant must appreciate the significance of international fellowships and be willing to contribute to them.One of the two major features of our scholarships is that they are intended to assist students in obtaining degrees. The other is that the applicants for the Foreign Students Scholarship are required to have sufficient Japanese ability to conduct their daily activities, regardless of their field of study.

How to apply
Applicants may obtain the application form through the foreign students' section of their school or directly from us. Return the application form by mail directly to us during the application period, which is October and November every year. An applicant must be a student of a graduate school or have obtained permission to enter a graduate school by the time of his/her application.

We welcome applications from outside Japan as well, provided the applicant can come to Tokyo for interview in the middle of February, 2009.

Selection procedure
Our Board of Directors makes the final decision after our five-person Selection Committee has conducted the document examination and interviews.
Amount and duration of scholarships
We offer the following three options, from which an applicant can choose.
１．\200,000 a month for two years
２．\180,000 a month for three years
３．\150,000 a month for four - five years

For each of the above options, the scholarship is provided for the minimum period necessary for the student to obtain his or her degree. In no case will an application to extend the scholarship be accepted after the scholarship period has ended.

Source: Honjo International Scholarship Foundation
1-14-9, Tomigaya , Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-0063 JAPAN
TEL +81-3-3468-2214
FAX +81-3-3468-2264
Website: http://www.hisf.or.jp/
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