MSA留学生サポートクラウドファンディング支援者インタビュー：株式会社ソーシャライズ
2021年から2022年初めにかけて、日本政府は、留学生を含む外国人の新規入国を厳しく制限してきました。こういった中で、国費留学生が例外的に来日を認められたことをMSAはありがたく存じます。ただし、それに伴い、隔離期間の費用を学生が自己負担で支払うという規定が定められました。国費留学生が負担していた費用は平均15万円で、50万円を上回る場合もありました。
MSA Quarantine Crowdfunding Backers’ Interview – Sociarise
日本語版をご覧になる方はこちら。 For most of 2021 and early 2022, under strict border controls, Japan stopped new entries of foreigners into Japan, including foreign students. However, MEXT scholars were given exceptions to…
Halal Food in Japan 101
Japan is starting to welcome many students this year. Many might want to try the local Japanese delicacies, such as Meiji chocolate. Although Japanese farmers do not plant cacao, Japan…
How much Japanese do I need in daily life in Japan? (Guide for Newcomers)
Some students studied Japanese for several years before coming to Japan, some have only studied it for a few months, and some have not studied Japanese at all. This article…
Alumni Voices: Kenny Song, Solving a Global Problem by Founding a Tech Startup in Japan
Kenny conducted research on adversarial machine learning and related topics at the University of Tokyo as a MEXT scholar after moving to Tokyo from San Francisco two years ago. He…
Experience After Quarantine
New scholars need to prepare many things before they embark on their journey to make the best out of their first couple of days in Japan. However, after arriving in…
Volunteering at the Tokyo Olympics Games: a MEXT Alumni’s Experience
Even as the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games become history, the contributions of more than 70,000 volunteers who made day-to-day operations of the events happen should not be forgotten….
Getting Married and Having Kids in Japan: MEXT Scholars Speak!
Marriage and childbirth can be exciting but also stressful times. And the sense of anxiety is particularly palpable when they happen in a foreign country, amid an unfamiliar language and…
My Quarantine Experience
Hello everyone. I am Arief Anthonius Purnama, from Indonesia. I arrived in Japan in June 2021. I am going to study at Shimane University. I am going to share my…
