Hi everyone I'm from Mexico too. I have info about Monbukagakusho. In Mexico for undergratude studies are around 5 places, for japanese student studies are 5 too. For graduate are 12. I know this because i asked the head about how many posibilities Mexico has and those were the answers. Actually I'm applying to Japanese student studies and I'm so nervous, my exam and interview in in two days. I really apreciate you have this project because in Mexico no one has any idea how to apply to this scholarship.
Thwe next coments will be in Spanish in order to give more info for Latin America countries and Spain.
Bien chavos como mencione estoy aplicando a la beca y esa es la informaciﾃｳn que yo tengo. Les doy los puntos breve de cada una aunque hare enfasis en la de perfeccionamiento del idioma japones, ya que es en la que menos informaciﾃｳn hay en la red.
LICENCIATURA
Depende que quieras estudiar, si es ciencias naturales y exactas haras examen de matematicas fﾃｺﾂ進ca biologﾃｺ} quﾃｺﾅ?ica inglﾃｩs y japonﾃｩs, deberﾃ｡s reunir 220 pts para pasar a la etapa de entrevista (desconozco si siga siendo valido este puntaje), el examen de japonﾃｩs no tiene tanto peso como mate o fﾃｺﾂ進ca. Es mejor que sepas japonﾃｩs en un nivel N4 para que sumes puntos a tu favor, el nivel de inglﾃｩs requierido es equivalente a un TOEFL 550pts. Una vez que pases los filtros de tu embajada deberas esperar la respuesta de MEXT. si eres aceptado vas a Japﾃｳn a estudiar japonﾃｩs por 6 meses y presentar el examen de admision a la unviersidad que desees, si no lo pasas te regresas a tu paﾃｺﾂ? asあ de simple.
MAESTRIA y DOCTORADO
Es en la que mﾃ｡s info hay, asあ que no tiene caso que escriba sobre ella.
PERFECCIONAMIENTO DE JAPONES
Es la que estoy aplicando, espero me la den. Debes estar en la licenciatura a fuerza, nada de que cubrあ crﾃｩditos pero aﾃｺn no me titulo, error frecuente de los aplicantes. Se requiere minimo el N3 para aplicar, no es necesario tener el comprobante oficial ya que a traves del examen que hace la embajada se dan cuenta del nivel, el examen de aﾃｱos pasados estan para llorar, si eres fregonsisimo en japonﾃｩs espera un puntaje de entre 60 a 75 pts no mﾃ｡s, si tienes el N3 espera entre 40 a 60. Si tienes nivel mﾃ｡s abajo te recomiendo que si aplicas te pongas las pilas pues la gramatica del examen no es la tipica de que particula va sino es perrisima, las lecturas son de tres paginas completas con alrededor de conocimiento de entre 1000 a 1800 kanji, pero no te desamines si se le entiende a la idea principal. En cuanto al papeleo que es donde mﾃ｡s tarde, al menos en Mﾃｩxico te piden la carta de recomendacion del director de la universidad, debes tener promedio minimo de 8.0 afortunadamente yo tengo 9.3 de la licenciatura =) me abre muchas posibilidades. debes hacer tu la traduccion de documentos, no vayas ni dos dias y mucho menos un dia antes de cerrar la convocatoria, porque siempre te regresan los papeles por cualquier cosa, y lo mﾃ｡s importante, podras haber cumplido con la Embajada pero si no registras tu candidatura ante la SRE estas descalificado.
Si me dan la beca, prometo escribir un post a fondo en espaﾃｱol, ingles y japones sobre el procedimiento. En verdad debes tener muchos meritos para aplicar, en mi caso me veo favorable por tener ya el certificado de ingles y japones. Ademas estudio Chino, hice investigacion para la UNAM (ahi estudio), etc. esas pequeﾃｱas cosas te dan el plus.
Espero sirva mi aporte, solo se que Filipinos, Estadounidenses, Coreanos y Chinos tienen mas posibilidades que otros paises.
Olvide mencionar de LICENCIATURA
si tu area es ciencias sociales o humanidades
Haras unicamente Matematicas, Ingles y Japones, pero para este Japones tiene mucho peso, aunque no lo dicen, por lo que nuevamente les sugiero ir manejando nivel de N4, con ese basta para tener las respuestas bien, yo vi los examenes de aﾃｱos pasados y bueno yo ya certifique N3 y ya empece a mejorar para N2, resolvi el examen y tuve 95% de las respuestas buenas de japones, osea hablamos de 95 pts de los 100, ahi ya llevas casi la mitad del puntaje solicitado, asあ que animense chavos.
MAtematicas es complicado, no es un nivel cualquiera, es mate como de licenciatura media en Mﾃｩxico, asあ que si planean aplicar haganlo con un aﾃｱo o dos de anticipacion
1- Well, it's not very clear what a Research student does in Japan compared with a Master degree student. Do research students also attend classes, take exams, and as generally expected to follow the same track as other Master students or do they get to access the uni facilities to work on the research they pitched, and meet on occasions with their advisers to discuss about their research?
2- I understand that my chances are very low to receive the scholarship since I am trying to get in the field of humanities and they specifically mention that in such cases the applicant must speak Japanese at an advanced level. My take is that perhaps I could argue that since I am already fluent in Korean and already know a good amount of Kanji, my learning curve would be quicker....--_-- And that because of the particular difficulty of researching colonial documents, this opportunity would be crucial for me as a preparation for my Phd. I would thus propose to research a certain law I am specializing in...or something like that. For those who have gotten the scholarship for fields within the humanities, does this sound like a possible track? My ultimate dream would be to have an adviser you would point me out to crucial scholars and documents I should study and I would then spend the next 2 years doing so and developing some sort of project out of it.
Hey EUS0J,
I'm from Mexico too and applying for the MEXT as a Research Student. I don't know anyone else who is doing it in Mexico, so that'd make you the first person. Do you mind if we keep in touch? And by the way, do you know when the application date is? Because I keep going to the Embassy website and they have no information whatsoever about it.
Thanks!
Hi everybody!!
Did you remeber that im applying for the japanese studies scholarship?, so I´m really happy =)
My application was good, i did my japanese exam and the interview. So my documents were sent to Tokyo
last week. So I have to wait until August to the final decision, I´m so nervous.
Hope my mexicans partners and I get the Monbugakasho.
Recuerdan que estoy aplicando para la beca de perfeccionamiento de japonés? Estoy muy feliz =)
Mi aplicación fue buena. Pase el examen de japonés y la entrevista. Mis documentos fueron enviados a Tokyo la semana pasada
Entonces tengo que esperar hasta Agosto para la decisión final. Estoy nervioso.
Espero que mis compañeros mexicanos y yo obtengamos la Monbukagakusho.
Did they purchased the Scholarship 2015, In my country we still wait for It , they havn't announced the scholarship , Wish to you the best .
Hello, as for the application date I believe it starts at april 8, from that moment you have to call the embassy and ask for the scholarship talks, just check the embassy webpage on a weekly basis, keep in mind that they make this talks a requirement if it is your first time applying for the scholarship, so you will have to attend to one of them, there they will explain you a bit more about all the process you will have to go trough, also, since you don't live in Mexico City, please note that you will have to make some trips here, for the talks, the exam and eventually the interview, if you want to contact me directly I send you a reply for the PM you send me, but I'm not sure if you allready saw it, anyway if there's anything I can help you with feel free to ask.
I'm a civil engineering student from Canada; I will be graduating next April and plan to study masters in Japan in October 2015. I just found out about the MEXT couple days ago and since then, i've been reading relentlessly on everything relevant to it. However there are still couple things that I just can't figure out still:
1) MEXT Scholarship through the Embassy or University Recommendation: As far as I understand, a student can apply for MEXT either through the embassy from his country or a university. For Embassy Recommendation, I first have to pass the first screening from the embassy, find the university that i want to get into and get accepted, and then get approval by the embassy again for the final approval. On the other hand, for the University Recommendation, the university can recommend me to the ministry once I get accepted to the University. If I am correct with this information, I wonder why I should get MEXT though Embassy when the process of the ladder seems so much simpler. Furthermore, I read that MEXT is much harder to get through the embassy compared to University Recommendation. Is it also true that I am not allowed to do both of them? If that is true, can I still go for Uni Recommendation if I get rejected by the Embassy:?
2) Dates for University Recommendation: if I want to enroll in October 2015, when is the right time for me to start applying to the Universities in Japan? I know that the embassy starts offering the application from the start of April, but I have no idea if I choose to get MEXT via University Recommendation. Should I start contacting the universities at this moment (March 2014)?
3) my chance of getting MEXT: i mean.. everyone applying for MEXT wants to know this.. and there is never a definitive answer for this question. However, I was wondering if any of you guys, especially the ones awarded in past, could help me figuring out my chance of getting MEXT based on these information:
Program & Discipline: Master's Program for Civil Engineering
University I want to attend: University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto
Country: Canada
Current University: University of Waterloo (pretty reputable school in Canada)
GPA: mid 80s (Some where around 3.5 out of 4 in GPA)
Experience: 1 term of research assistantship at the university, 5 internships (4 months each) since 1st year of university
Fluency in Japanese: Conversational, can read basic Japanese (lived in Japan for total of 9 years; 5 years from 0-5 and 5 years from 10-14; I did attend in English school so I hope that does not disqualify me from MEXT requirements)
Other languages: Korean (Im orginally from Korean and became Canadian several years ago)
I hope I am good enough of a candidate... please feel free to say anything.. thanks so much for your time reading this post!!
Hi guys,
I also plan to apply for the research scholarship, but I would prefer to go straight into a masters degree course rather than be a research student first and then transfer. i have talked to the japanese embassy here and some universities in Japan and they say to wait till I pass the first round first. Does anyone know of people that have gone straight into a masters course without doing the research student first ?
If so do you know how they went about this ?
Thanks
Hi, I've stumbled upon this..I believe that depends on which university you want to attend. For instance when i checked out Tokyo U website, it says they only except students for masters in October; Tokyo U does not accept research student. On the other hand, Osaka U or kyoto U (sorry i forgot which one) actually recommends students to begin with research then upgrade to masters, since extending MEXT is not that hard.
I am new at this too.. but I read from one of the posts that i should contact the professors I am interested in working with (whether its research or masters) and gather information on their research. Use this info to write up your thesis proposal, instead of writing "i want to do masters so i dont need a thesis".
Not here either. I think it'll come out next week.
I'm already asking at school for the letters of recommendation... I didn't think getting it would be so hard.
I'm trying to get an appointment with the Dean of the school and his assistant just says he is too busy. And my advisor says he does not have the authority to write one in a headed notepaper from the school (that is how they ask for them here in Mexico) -__-
I have to find a way to get them.