With the aim of supporting specialists who require Japanese-language proficiency in order to smoothly perform their specialized work and research activities (such as researchers, graduate students, librarians, museum and art museum curators), this program provides training to improve their Japanese-language ability by learning practical Japanese and actually using it in their research and specialized work-related activities, conducted at the Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai.

*In FY2025, only a six-month course will be offered.

In order to promote Japanese Studies overseas, this program, jointly organized by the Japan Foundation (herein referred to as "JF") and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, National Institutes for the Humanities (herein referred to as "Nichibunken"), provides post-doctoral researchers in the field of Japanese Studies with opportunities to conduct research in Japan while belonging to Nichibunken. The Fellows will also be expected to gain experience as project facilitators through operation and management work at various meetings or workshops, and to form and expand networks with people involved in international exchange.

In order to promote Japanese Studies overseas, this program, jointly organized by the Japan Foundation (hereinafter referred to as “JF”) and the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia of the University of Tokyo (hereinafter referred to as “Tobunken”), provides post-doctoral researchers in the field of Japanese Studies with opportunities to conduct research in Japan while belonging to Tobunken. The Fellows will also be expected to gain experience as project facilitators through operation and management work at various meetings or workshops, and to form and expand networks with people involved in international exchange.

Tohoku University’s Center for Integrated Japanese Studies (CIJS), in collaboration with the Japan Foundation (JF) and supported by the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), has announced a research fellowship program that allows Ph.D. candidates who conduct research related to Japan and feel they need to visit Japan to complete their doctoral research, to do so at the university.

This program is designed to dispatch Japanese individuals in the Southern, Midwestern and Mountain regions of the U.S. for two years as outreach coordinators. Coordinators provide information about Japanese culture, society, everyday life, and language in local community settings and organize activities that foster interactions between Japan and the United States.

This program provides preeminent foreign scholars and researchers in the field of Japanese studies with opportunities to conduct research in Japan with the aim of supporting them and promoting Japanese studies overseas. Experts in the fields of natural science, medical science, and engineering are excluded. There are three subcategories as follows.