To whom considering the application for the regular/research student in my laboratory

私の研究室への進学を検討している方へ

November 15, 2024

Reference sites:

• The Society for Mathematical Biology （数理生物学会［米国］）
• The European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology （欧州数理・理論生物学会）
• 日本数理生物学会

I do not accept the research student except for in the following two cases:

1. As a scholar of a certain scholarship, it is supported by the scholarship for the scholar to have a preparatory period as a 'research student' before becoming the regular student;
2. Coming to our university with a student/academic exchange program (e.g., internship) under an academic agreement between your university/department and ours, or with an official fund provided by the university to which you belong.

次の2つの場合を除いて，研究生は受け入れていません。

1. 何らかの奨学金による留学の準備期間として「研究生」の期間がその奨学生に認められている場合
2. 学生自身が所属する大学の資金，あるいは，大学間交流協定等に基づく留学生プログラムや教育・学術交流による留学の場合

1. As for the entrance examination of our graduate school, you can get satisfactory information from the following sites:
   1. https://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/en/entrance/exam.html
   2. http://www.math.is.tohoku.ac.jp/english/admission/index.html
   3. https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/admissions/admission_graduate.html
   4. https://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/introduction/ilo/index.html

   私の所属する研究科の大学院入試については，以下のサイトから十分な情報を得ることが可能です：

   1. https://www.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jp/entrance/exam.html
   2. https://www.math.is.tohoku.ac.jp/index-j.html

2. For satisfactory supervising, necessary is the capacity of English language enough to communicate with each other. The English capacity is essential for studying and researching in our graduate school. The Japanese capacity is usually secondary for the study and research in our graduate school, although its least capacity is necessary for living in Japan. I could not accept any foreign regular student without the satisfactory capacity of English language, except for the case that he/she has the capacity of Japanese language enough to understand the scientific/technical literature written in Japanese. Once getting the research/regular studentship in our graduate school, it would be possible to have some courses of Japanese language and culture provided by our university in order to improve your capacity of Japanese language and get some necessary knowledge to live in Japan. However, naturally I never accept any foreign student with the purpose only to improve his/her capacity of Japanese or English language, or live in Japan.

3. If you are planning to study in Japan with your private fund, please confirm your fund enough to maintain your student life in Japan. Japanese graduate school consists of two-year master course and three-year doctor course (= PhD course). For the master course, your fund must be satisfactory to keep your life and the tuition fees in Japan at least for two years. In the process of acceptance for the research/regular student, you would be necessarily required to submit some documents to prove the satisfactory fund. There may some chances only for the regular foreign student to get a scholarship/fellowship from our university or graduate school, though such a scholarship is just for the partial support for your student life. My research fund could not be used to support any part of student life.

4. If you would want to get a scholarship for your advanced study in Japan, you may find one from the ministry or an organization of your own country, or may try to get one from a Japanese organization. As for the information about such scholarships, you may get some information at the following sites:
   1. https://www.studyinjapan.go.jp/en/
   2. https://www.jasso.go.jp/en/index.html
   3. https://www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp/english/