Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers

The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers is designed to assist promising, highly qualified, young foreign researchers who hold a doctoral degree. This program provides opportunities for such researchers to pursue collaborative research under the leadership of a host researcher in a Japanese university or research institute, thereby allowing them to advance their own research while promoting scientific advancement (advancement of science in all fields of the natural and social sciences and the humanities) in Japan and the counterpart countries through close collaboration in scientific activities. There are two kinds of fellowships: Long term (12 to 24 months) and short term (16 days to 11 months). ***Application deadlines for various periods of fellowship tenure are: Late February, Early June, Late August, Early October.***