Re: [tlug] cs grad school in japan

[Akamine Hector <hec_aka@example.com>]

 --- BOTi <9915104t@example.com> からのメッセージ：
> Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> 
> > Michael Moyle (michael@example.com) wrote:
> >
> > > in Japan and know how they work? I don't speak
> Japanese, which
> > > appears to be a major
> > > stumbling block
> >
> > Umm, yeah :-)
> >
> > The standard undergrad admission requirement for
> non-native Japanese speakers to
> > enter a Japanese university is to have passed
> Level 1 on the Japanese
> > Language Proficiency Test (JPLT), which is pretty
> advanced.
> 
> This is true for 99% of the cases. But being a 4th
> year undergrad student at Kobe
> uni and not having taken 1kyu yet I belong to the
> minority. Monbusho scholarship
> students are exempt from this requirement.
> 

I think that for graduate schools, Japanese language
requirements are less strict. Most (if not all) of the
required reading (basically research papers) is in
English, and it is possible (at least in my university and
in some others in which I know people) to write your
thesis in English. I think it also depends on the
university, but before you start as a formal graduate
student, they will force you to be at least half year as a
"kenkyuusei" (research student). 


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