Opening Ceremony of Landscapes: New vision through multiple windows, the Japan Media Arts Festival Special Exhibition in Singapore

Artist Talk: Landscapes of Japan and Singapore, Landscape from unstable window

The Japan Media Arts Festival Special Exhibition in Singapore Film Screening

Visit Tohoku Seminar: Exploration to the deep north of Japan!

Science through entertainment with shooting stars on demand

Science through entertainment with shooting stars on demand

Science through entertainment with shooting stars on demand

Science through entertainment with shooting stars on demand

Super Rugby Night, in support of Sunwolves

Chingay Parade 2017

Demonstration by Nippon Sport Science University

SIS Celebrates!

Ambassador’s Visit to A*STAR

Ambassador's Visit to RIKEN Singapore Representative Office and JST Singapore Office

Ambassador's Visit to Kikkoman Singapore

Ambassador’s Visit to National Museum of Singapore

Lunar New Year Celebration 2017 at Bishan Community Club

Visit by students of NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Visit by students of NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM)

Ambassador's Visit to Japan Rail Café

Visit by Mayor of Miyazaki city Mr Tadashi Tojiki

Visit by Dr. Akito Arima

Ambassador's Visit to Keppel-NUS Corporate Laboratory

Visit by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Visit by JENESYS 2016

Super Rugby 2017

Catch SUNWOLVES, the Japanese team that will be participating in the 2017 Super Rugby, in the following 3 games in Singapore at National Stadium in March and May! (Click here to read more)

(1) 1st Match in Singapore
Date: 18:55, 4th March 2017
Sunwolves vs Kings

(2) 2nd Match in Singapore
Date: 18:55, 25th March 2017
Sunwolves vs Stormers

(3) 3rd Match in Singapore
Date: 19:55, 20th May 2017
Sunwolves vs Sharks

HSBC World Rugby Sevens 2016/17 Series

Singapore will be hosting the 8th tournament of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series on 15 & 16 April 2017. A total of 16 international teams, including Japan, will participate in the 2016/17 Series, which kicked off in Dubai this month. (Click here to read more)

How should Singapore-Japan bilateral relationship continue to develop? By Mr Tan Jong Lek

Spring High-School Baseball Tournament

KOUNOTORI6 completed its mission with re-entry!

The KOUNOTORI6 (HTV6, a cargo transporter to the International Space Station) left the ISS on Jan. 28 and re-entered the atmosphere at around 0:06 a.m. on Feb. 6 (Japan Standard Time.) KOUNOTORI6 successfully completed its cargo supply mission to the ISS. (Click to read more)

HISAKI, to Prove Solar Wind’s Influence on the Inner Magnetosphere of Jupiter

HISAKI, JAXA’S Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognition of Interaction of Atmosphere presents the monitoring data that show solar wind influences Jupiter's inner magnetosphere, the most powerful in the solar system. The finding contradicts the previous hypothesis that solar wind influence on the planet’s inner part is negligible, since its magnetosphere is huge and is rotationally dominated. Research on the response of Jupiter's inner magnetosphere to solar wind requires long...(Click to read more)

Arase critical operation phase successfully completed!

JAXA confirmed completion of the critical operations phase of Arase (ERG), Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace. It results from a sequence of significant tasks that occurred as anticipated: perigee up maneuvers and extension of its wire antennae and masts. Arase is currently in good condition and is scheduled to enter into a two-month commissioning phase, then followed by a science operations phase...(Click to read more)

Toward a New Era of Deep Space Exploration

The JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, is home to the largest parabolic antenna in Japan. This large antenna, 64 meters in diameter, was built in 1984, and it was used to communicate with Japan’s first two interplanetary space probes, Sakigake and Suisei, which were launched to study Halley’s Comet in 1985. The antenna has since handled communications with the asteroid probe Hayabusa and other deep...(Click to read more)

Green light for launch of clinical research using donor iPS cells

On February 6, a press conference was held in Kobe to announce the launch of a clinical research project aimed at establishing an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based treatment for wet-type age-related macular degeneration, which has been reviewed and assessed by all required Japanese regulatory...(Click to read more)

K computer: Automobile Aerodynamic Simulation -Catch the wind of the next generation-(full ver.)

Supercomputer K is a powerful tool for science. This video explains how K is being used for aerodynamic simulation to design autos. It also shows wind tunnel experiments at a car manufacturer which is usually closed to the public. Researchers talk about their efforts to strengthen Japan’s international competitiveness by using supercomputers for aerodynamic analysis...(Click to watch video)

RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI)

Brain science is valuable not only for the advancement of science but also because it can greatly impact our society and economy. To meet these expectations, the Brain Science Institute (BSI) was established in 1997 as part of RIKEN, an independent research institution supported by the Japanese government. BSI has a mission to produce innovative research and technology...(Click to read more)

RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)

The RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project has been launched since April 2016 with the subsidy for “Advanced Integrated Intelligence Platform Project (AIP) -Artificial Intelligence/ Big Data/ Internet of Things/ Cybersecurity-.” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Our center aims to achieve scientific breakthrough and to contribute to...(Click to read more)

RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB)

The CDB is dedicated to developing a better understanding of fundamental processes of animal development at the molecular and cell biological level, the more complex phenomena involved in organogenesis as well as the biology of stem cells and regeneration. By elucidating these processes researchers working at CDB hope to improve the effectiveness of regenerative...(Click to read more)

Science—USA’s Scientific Journal introduces Science Agora 2016

Rush D. Holt, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals, visited Japan and Northeast Asia, and gave a keynote speech at the opening session of the Science Agora 2016 (held from 3rd to 6th November 2016, at the Odaiba area of Tokyo including the National Museum of...(Click to read more)

The 4th Japan Junior High School Science Championships: Team from Gunma Prefecture wins 1st place

For three days starting on December 2nd, 2016, JST hosted the 4th Japan Junior High School Science Championships (JJHSSC) at the BumB Tokyo Sports Culture Center. Junior high school students representing each prefecture competed with their scientific abilities. (Click to read more)

Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for implementation of SDGs

In September, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that comprise of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. The SDGs provide the universal goals to the issues the world including Japan and the humanity faces. The goals and targets of the SDGs are relevant to the implementation of Super Smart Society, “Society 5.0” (Forth Industrial Revolution), set by the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan as a major pillar of...(Click here to read more)

Initiative on Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (IRUD)

AMED launched the Initiative on Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases(IRUD), which is the nationwide consortium networking patients, medical doctors at hospitals and community clinics, and researchers, and will integrate their efforts and expertise, and will exploit the information obtained by genome analysis to provide the diagnoses to patients with rare and undiagnosed diseases. To diagnose rare diseases, international collaboration is necessary, and IRUD will set-up the data sharing system for future...(Click here to read more)

AMED and NIAID implemented the first international collaboration call and 13 R&D projects were awarded to grant

The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), who’s President is Dr. Makoto Suematu and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, who’s Director is Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently identified thirteen outstanding R&D projects submitted in response to a call for international collaborative applications focused on infectious diseases and immunology research. This call was issued as part of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences...(Click here to read more)

FY2017 Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) collaborative call: Prevention and Management of Mental Disorders

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) in Collaboration with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)* pleased to announce the collaborative call for proposal on implementation research for the Prevention and Management of Mental Disorders in Low-and Middle-income Countries (LMICs). This program is not intended to support research that can be conducted primarily in high-income countries. For details of the call, please refer to the GACD guidance and AMED supplemental application guideline. (Click here to read more)

JARE (Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition)

Japan commenced its scientific activities in Antarctica in 1956, which was marked by the voyage of “Soya” with the 1st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) on board. This project was a part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), and Japanese Syowa Station was established on Ongul Island in Antarctica in 1957. Since then, Japan has performed various observations at Syowa Station and the surrounding areas, and resulted in...(Click here to read more)

Guide book "Student Guide to Japan"

"Student Guide to Japan" is an essential book for international students planning to study in Japan.

(Click to read more: English | Mandarin)

Pamphlet on Scholarship for International Students in Japan 2016-2017

"Scholarships for International Students in Japan 2016-2017" contains details about scholarships provided by various organisations that have responded to a questionnaire survey carried out by JASSO. (Click here to read more)

Free student counselling at the Embassy of Japan

Our new Student Advisor Ms Regina provides free student counselling for people interested in studying in Japan. The counselling will be held at the Embassy of Japan, 16 Nassim Road, Singapore 258390. No appointment is necessary. Please call 62358855 if you have any queries. There will be no counselling sessions on Embassy holidays. (Click here to read more)

Japan Alumni eNews Vol. 94 February 10th, 2017

Japan Student Service Organisation (JASSO) publishes Japan Alumni eNews every month. The contents are as follows:

1. Life in Japan by Photo
2. Alumni News
3. Academic News
4. Business News (Job Hunting)
5. Visit Japan
6. NIPPON Information
7. JASSO News
8. From the Editor

Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU)

The Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU) is used to evaluate whether international students who wish to study at the undergraduate level at universities or other such higher educational institutions in Japan possess the Japanese language skills and the basic academic abilities needed to study at those institutions. (Guidelines for the 2017 EJU | (Click here to read more))

Study in Japan Fair

JASSO holds Study in Japan Fairs outside Japan with participation of Japanese universities to provide information on study in Japan to high school students, university students and educators.

Target: High school students, university students and graduate students.
Exhibitors: Japanese universities
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Search for Japanese schools (graduate schools, universities and junior colleges)

Information related to application qualifications, major field of studies, medium of instruction and on-campus scholarships of Japanese graduate schools, universities and junior colleges is available for searching through Excel files posted online. (Click here to read more)

Study in English at Japanese university

EDU-Port Japan

EDU-Port Japan is a public-private, nationwide initiative to proactively disseminate Japanese-style education overseas by providing a platform from which the public and private sectors collaborate in achieving this objective. The platform is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and many other organizations including NGOs and private businesses.
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