Topic 1. Overview of MEXT scholarship

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*Notes: This part just can give you some brief understand of MEXT scholarship. To search the up to date detail information about MEXT scholarship each year, you better going to official website of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology in here or Embassy/Consulate of your country.

1. WHAT IS MEXT SCHOLARSHIP ?

According to Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology (stand for MEXT), “MEXT” Scholarship is the Government scholarship offered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. To date, there are 65,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world have studied in Japan under the Japanese Government Scholarship program established in 1954. MEXT offers totally 7 types of scholarship which includes: Research students, Teacher training students, Undergraduate students, Japanese studies students, College of technology students, Special training college student, Young leader program (YLP) students. The scope of this site will only mention about MEXT for Research student and Undergraduate students because these application types gain most concern of applicants all around the world.

2. PURPOSE OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND TREND OF MEXT SCHOLARSHIP

The purpose of MEXT scholarship aims to promote friendly relation between Japan to other countries. Furthermore, it cannot deny the fact that every strong nations often want to influence their power to the other countries, especially poor countries. Beside giving those countries ODA, financial aid, etc. one of “tool” the Japanese Government using is education – in this case is giving qualified people in those poor countries scholarship. Furthermore, Japanese government also gain benefits from MEXT scholar in 2 points: Firstly, in recent years, Japanese Government is trying to attract the foreign high quality human resource, The MEXT sholar is a kind of high quality human resource. If after graduating, MEXT scholars decide to stay to work in Japan, those people will contribute a lot in the development of Japanese economy. Secondly, for the MEXT scholars who decide to come back to their home town, they will play a significant role in connecting between their country to Japan in term of many aspects: education, technology, business and so on.

The trend of MEXT scholarship changes every 10 years. Let me explain more about it. Japan has many unique aspects in their culture. Their culture has both advantages and disadvantages. In fact, not many foreigners can adapt the disadvantages of Japanese culture – one of those disadvantages is “workaholic”. Therefore, not many people in the developed countries put MEXT as their 1st choice scholarship option because the education system in their countries is good enough so Japan will never become their desired destination. MEXT trend is popular to the people in developing and poor countries (D&P) like South East Asia, South Asia, Middle East Asia, Africa because of some below reasons:

• Education system in their countries are bad
• For the low standard of living in D&P countries, MEXT allowance is still a significant amount of $
• The people in those D&P countries want to learn from Japanese people discipline in working

3. MEXT SCHOLARSHIP BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCE

(i) Allowance :

Each grantee will be provided monthly with 143,000 ¥ [Research Students],144,000 ¥ [regular students in Master’s courses or professional graduate courses], or 145,000 ¥ [regular students in doctoral courses]. An additional monthly stipend of 2,000 or 3,000 ¥ may be provided to those undertaking study or research in specially designated regions.

N.B. : 1.0 ¥ ≃ 0.0088 $ ≃ 0.56 INR

(ii) Traveling Costs :

Transportation to Japan: Each grantee will be supplied in general, according to his/her itinerary and route as designated by MEXT, with an economy-class airplane ticket from the international airport nearest to his/her home address to the New Tokyo International Airport or any other international airport that the assigned university usually uses. Expenses such as domestic transportation from his/her home address to the international airport, airport tax, airport usage fees, special taxes on travel, or inland transportation within Japan will NOT be supplied.

Transportation from Japan: The grantee who returns to his/her home country within the fixed period after the expiration of his/her scholarship will be supplied, in general, upon application, with an economy-class airplane ticket for the travel from the New Tokyo International Airport (or any other international airport that the assigned university uses as a normal route) to the international airport nearest to his/her home address.

(iii) School Fees:

Fees for matriculation, tuition and entrance examinations at a university will be paid by the Japanese government. If the grantee moves on to higher education as a non-degree student or fails the entrance examinations, he/she will pay for entrance examinations.

4. TYPES OF MEXT SCHOLARSHIP AND APPLICATION PROCESS (IN EDITING)

►  Embassy recommendation ( High Selection Chance)

► University recommendation

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