From 2026, MSc and PhD course students, research students, and short-term internship in our lab will be accepted in Graduate School of Medicine. Please see the followings and check the official website of our department.
We previously worked and currently work with students and post-docs who are unable to speak Japanese. In the courses for international students, you can receive supports for your Japanese daily life and student life and take some Japanese courses. Some lectures are provided in English. International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN) also promotes social networks in the University.
All of the applicants are required their research plan in our lab, irrespective of application guidance. Before contact, please carefully read and write your research proposal in our lab.
Master and Doctoral Program in Graduate School of Medicine
https://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html
The entry is only in April. Application guidance will be held in May, but the direct inquiries will be accepted via mail or in-person.
iPHISEM; The University of Tokyo International Program for Human Integrative Science and Education of Mind (国際短期プログラム)
Program for Human Integrative Science and Education of Mind (PHISEM) is a University-wide Educational Program in The University of Tokyo supported by UTokyo Institute for Diversity & Adaptation of Human Mind (UTIDAHM). UTIDAHM was established in 2015 to promote interdisciplinary collaboration studies for human brain and mind and consists of seven faculties: the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Graduate School of Education, Graduate School of Law and Politics, the Graduate School of Science, and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. PHISEM also provides interdisciplinary education programs for the undergraduate and graduate students from 2016. As academic members in UTIDAHM and PHISEM have already provided international internship programs in the scheme of their faculties, we start to provide an international program for promoting undergraduate and graduate students in universities abroad to learn interdisciplinary approach for understanding human brain and mind.
Postgraduate International Research Student (大学院外国人研究生)
We can accept graduate school research students who want to settle into Japanese life and education for 6 or 12 months before officially admitting to our lab as a graduate school student. This is an official program in the department and the applicant needs to submit an approved research proposal in the application. The application outline is announced in January and the deadline is in February for admitting in September and September in next April.
Be aware that Postgraduate International Research Student Program has no examination and seems rather easier to admit to the University. However, we are unable to confirm whether the student admit to the Master and Doctor Program in the next term. The candidates in the programs are strictly screened by the examination and presentation including other staffs in the Department.
Writing a research proposal
Please include the sections in your research proposal.
- What you have learned
- Study background related to the proposal
- Study background related to the proposal in our lab
- What you want to do in our lab
- Materials and methods
- Participants
- Measures
- Data preprocessing
- Statistical analysis
- Expected results
- Study schedule during your stay
- References
Please describe in detail about Section 4 and 5, according to previous works from our lab. Considerable mismatch will be rejected without consideration.