The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation 2008 Japan

Hitachi Scholarship Foundation 2008 for Postgraduate Scholarship Awards
The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation offers postgraduate scholarship awards to faculty members of the universities in Southeast Asian countries who intend to study at Japanese graduate schools as full-time students for Master’s or Doctoral Course in the field of science and technology under the following conditions.

1. Term of Scholarship
• For Master’s Course: Two and half years including half a year for preparation to enroll at the Master’s Course
• For Doctoral Course: Three and half years including half a year for preparation to enroll at the Doctoral Course

2. Contents of Scholarship (The Foundation will support the following costs and expenses)
• Travel expenses
• Arrival and return allowance: \50,000 each
• Stipend: \180,000 a month
• Housing allowance (at cost but maximum amount per month)
• Tuition and other school expenses listed in
• Field study expenses: At cost but up to \50,000 per year. Application should be
2008 HITACHI SCHOLARSHIP 1 submitted to the Foundation in advance together with the recommendation letter of the host scientist for review and approval.
• Expenses to make presentation at international conferences: At cost. Application in advance as same as 2-6 above is required.
• Expenses to attend the activities of the Foundation

3. Application and Selection
• Eligibility and qualification of applicants: Only the faculty members, who satisfy the following conditions, of the universities invited by the Foundation will be accepted as applicants.
• Application procedure: Application shall be endorsed by the President’s office of the university to which the Foundation has offered the scholarship award and submitted to the following address through the said office by November 30, 2007 using the registered mail.

Neither personal nor direct application to the Foundation is accepted.
The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation
21F Akihabara UDX Building
14-1, Soto-Kanda 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8010
Japan
Application shall be submitted with all the documents as required below and the
application missing any of them will be automatically rejected. The Foundation
reserves the right to request any other additional documents.

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