The SOAS Japan Research Centre offers partial funding for MA, MPhil and PhD studies at SOAS via the Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship (application deadline 27 February 2015), the Kayako Tsuda Bursary (deadline 22 May 2015), and the Meiji Jingu Scholarships (deadline 22 May 2015). The table below provides some brief details. For additional information about opportunities for advanced study of Japan see our website at www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/  or contact the JRC Chair, Dr Christopher Gerteis at christopher.gerteis@soas.ac.uk for further information.

The JRC as an intellectual community and centre for research excellence offers support for well-qualified masters and doctoral students to study under the guidance of members working in their specialist disciplines. Students studying under the guidance of JRC members have unrestricted and usually free access to a range of seminars, conferences and workshops being held in SOAS or within easy reach. The unique combination of individual supervision, taught courses and regional and discipline based seminars enables the majority of doctoral students complete their degrees within four years.

With 28 permanent members – and a corps of dedicated research associates and distinguished visiting scholars – the SOAS JRC fosters a vibrant research environment host to the largest concentration of Japanese Studies scholars in the United Kingdom and Europe. JRC members research and publish in a wide range of disciplines including: Anthropology; Archeology; Cinema, Television and Media Studies; Drama; Economics; Financial & Management Studies; History; History of Art; Language Acquisition and Pedagogy; Linguistics; Literature; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; and Sociology.

The SOAS Library maintains an excellent Japanese language research collection, easily supplemented via quick research trips to neighboring universities or the Inter Library Loan system. SOAS doctoral students have free access to the nearby British Library (including the Far Eastern and Oriental Collections), to the British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale, to the National Archives, and to a vast array of other collections, including the libraries of most other London colleges and universities.