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To privately financed international students,

The JASSO Honors Scholarship for Privately-Financed International Students (Gakushu-Shoreihi) offers special additional support for privately funded international students who are experiencing financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Eligible students who wish to apply for this scholarship must complete the application process through the university as detailed below. If there are more applicants than the maximum number of scholarship recipients possible, the university will select final candidates based on the applications submitted and recommend them to JASSO.

1 Amount and Number of students who can be recommended to the JASSO from our university

[Amount] JPY48,000, only for 1 month (October 2020)
[The Number of students] 18 students in total

2 Eligibility

Applicants must meet all of the following conditions:

• Applicants must be privately financed international students
  *Students on the MEXT scholarship, or any other scholarship funded by a foreign government, are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants must be enrolled as either regular students in one of the undergraduate or graduate programs, students in the Practial Music Course, or graduate research students.
  *Students who are currently taking a leave of absence from school are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants must have stayed in Japan with the “Student (留学)” status of residence as of April 1, 2020, and must be staying in Japan with the “Student (留学)”status of residence as of October 1, 2020.
  *Those who were applying for renewal (extension) of the “Student (留学)” status of residence as of April 1, 2020, or October 1, 2020 are included.
• Applicants must have an account with the Japan Post Bank (ゆうちょ銀行 Yucho Ginko).
• Applicants must be excellent in academic performance and personal character, and have financial difficulty in continuing their studies.
• Applicants must have a GPA of 2.30 or more in the last academic year.
• Applicants must have proficiency in Japanese or English at the following levels: Japanese: JPLT level N2 or higher, EJU (Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students)’s score of 200 points or higher
  English: CEFR (Common European Framework of Preference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment) level B2 or higher.
• Applicants must agree to cooperate in the career path survey conducted by JASSO after the scholarship is granted.
• Allowance received by applicants’ financial supporter(s) must not exceed an average of 90,000 yen per month (excluding enrollment fee, tuition fee, etc.).
• If the applicant has a financial supporter in Japan, his/her annual income must be less than JPY 5,000,000.
• Applicants must not be receiving a scholarship that cannot be combined with other scholarships.
• Applicants must not be receiving support under JASSO’s international students support program.

 

3 Documents to be submitted

1. Application Form
2. Copy of Japanese/English Proficiency Test score
3. Copy of Residence Card (both sides)
   *If you are applying for an extension of your status of residence “Student (留学)” as of October 1, 2020, please submit a copy of the receipt of application issued by the Immigration Services Agency.
4. Copy of Japan Post Bank (ゆうちょ銀行 Yucho Ginko) account book (copy the inside cover to confirm your name in Kana and account number)
   *If you do not have one at the time of application, you should go to Japan Post Bank as soon as possible. To open a bank account, you will need your student ID card and Residence Card. The last day to submit a copy of your bank account book is Tuesday, October 6, 2020.
5. Copy of Academic transcript from the previous year (only for research students newly enrolled in 2020)

 

4 How to apply

Online:
Please complete your application here.
Deadline: 5 pm, September 30, 2020

The documents No.2-5 above must be sent either by email to kokusai-tua(at)ml.geidai.ac.jp or by mail with a tracking number. If you are sending by email, please protect your documents with a password (your student ID number at Tokyo Geidai).

Mail:
Please download your application form:
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Deadline: September 30, 2020 (Applications postmarked on this date are acceptable)

Please send the completed application form along with the supporting documents using the “registered express mail.”

Address:
12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8714
“JASSO Gakushu-Shoreihi Special Additional Support”
International Affairs Division
Tokyo University of the Arts

*Write “JASSO Gakushu-Shoreihi Special Additional Support” in red on the envelope.
*The application must reach the office no later than Wednesday, September 30, 2020.

*Applications submitted after the deadline are not accepted.

 

5 Announcement of result

1. The university will inform via email the successful applicants who will be recommended to JASSO around October 15, 2020.
   *The recommendation by the university does not mean that the applicant will pass the review by JASSO.
   *Immediately after the result notification, the successful applicants will need to confirm their class attendance for October 2020. Please keep this in mind and check your email frequently in order to respond quickly to our request.
2. The final result by JASSO will be notified by e-mail around the beginning of November 2020.

 

6 Contact

If you have any questions, please send an email to ryugakusei(at)ml.geidai.ac.jp.
We will be unable to respond to phone calls regarding this matter.