Report: MSA Financial Aid (Late 2020)
In the last few months of 2020, MSA executed a financial aid program to support scholars returning from overseas and having to bear extraordinary expenses regarding COVID-19 related measures. We…
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – Welcome Webinar Series
Usually, there will be two MEXT scholar welcome events in a year, where MSA will be doing sempai lectures in order to ensure that incoming scholars are equipped with knowledge…
Report: Cross-Border Webinar – How COVID-19 Changed the Business Presence of Japan in the World
On the 31st Oct 2021, MSA held out first Cross-Border Webinar. Around a 100 people across multiple continents in the world joined us in exploring how COVID-19 changed the business…
REPORT – Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Graduation Plans of MEXT Scholars and Plea for Special Consideration
TOKYO – November 24 2020. Over the period of the COVID emergency declaration and even after, many scholars have faced significant setbacks to their academic pursuits as the global epidemic…
Japan Re-entry Procedures Regarding The New Coronavirus COVID-19
As 2020 comes to end and the world is still in a pandemic, going back to your country may become needed at some point in time. Japan’s government has issued…
Alumni Voices: KHANH NGOC – Venturing, to return
Ngoc came to Japan as an undergraduate MEXT scholar in 1999. Back then, she was a Computer Science student at Can Tho university, a big university in the South of…
Scholar feature: Tokyo State of Mind (with Katya and Khamida)
One of MSA’s goals is to highlight and publicize the achievements of current scholars and alumni. By doing so we wish to show what recipients of the MEXT scholarship, both…
Cross Border Webinar on 31st Oct 2020 – How COVID-19 Changed the Business Presence of Japan in the World
It is with great pleasure that MSA is announcing its first Cross Border Webinar with various Japan and MEXT alumni associations throughout the world. The seminar will be examining how…
NOTICE: Possibility for scholars to request leave of absence.
On Saturday, MSA received notice that a memorandum was issued by MEXT on 15th May, 2020, which speaks about provisions for leave of absence (under strict conditions) given the extraordinary…
