Research with Japan

Bilateral Programs

Joint Research Projects and Seminars
Based on bilateral agreements with counterpart organizations, JSPS provides financial support to Japanese researchers to carry out bilateral joint projects and seminars to build enduring networks.

Researcher Exchanges
Based on bilateral agreements with counterpart organizations, JSPS provides financial support to the Japanese researchers visiting other countries to carry out research or hold discussions.

G8 Research Councils Initiative

Under the G8 Research Councils Initiative, multilateral joint research is carried out with support by seven of the G8 countries. The program funds a wide spectrum of international joint projects in which excellent researchers, jointly recruited from universities and institutes in the participating countries, collaborate within a highly synergistic framework.

Building Leading-edge Research Hubs

JSPS Core-to-Core Program

Inter-institutional networks are formed and strengthened between advanced research institutions in Japan and the Western countries for the purpose of establishing world-caliber research hubs in leading-edge fields.

Conducting Scientific Exchanges with Asian and African Countries

Asian CORE Program

JSPS Supports a wide spectrum of activities, including joint research and seminars, carried out based on equal partnership with counterpart institutions in Asia. Their aim is to build top world-class research centers in the region, while providing cutting-edge platforms for fostering young Asian researchers.

Asia-Africa Science Platform Program

To help solve problems prevailing in developing regions of Asia and Africa, Japanese universities and research institutions take the lead in building research centers in those counterpart countries and in fostering indigenous researchers.

A3 Foresight Program

Along with JSPS, partner funding agencies in China and Korea jointly recruit, select and support trilateral projects to develop top world-class research hubs in East Asia.

Dispatch of Science and Technology Researchers

Under the government’s Science and Technology diplomacy initiative, the Japan International Cooperation Agency （JICA） dispatches Japanese researchers to conduct joint ODA-funded research projects primarily in Asian and African developing countries. JSPS assists JICA in coordinating these researcher dispatches.

Providing International Experience and Training to Young Researchers

Young Researchers Overseas Visits Program for Vitalizing Brain Circulation

Support is given to the overseas dispatch of young researchers to participate in international research collaborations. Transcending brain gain and drain, international brain circulation is stimulated in a way that contributes to scientific advancement in Japan.
（As a rule, research dispatches are for one year or longer.）

International Research Experience for Students and Young Researchers

This program has the following two components.

Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits

Support is given for programs at Japanese universities and research institutes that provide opportunities for young researchers, including undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and assistant professors, to experience research at overseas research institutions.
（Overseas research visits are up to one year.）

Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program

Support is given to excellent young researchers (full-time researchers, doctoral students/postdocs with Research Fellowships for Young Scientists) to go to top-ranked overseas research institutions and work in friendly competition with overseas colleagues. （As a rule, visits are from 90 days to 12 months.）

International Training Program (ITP) for Young Researchers

Support is given for programs at Japanese universities and send young researchers, including graduate students, postdocs and research associates, abroad to obtaining international training and research experience at an early stage in their careers. （Overseas research visits are from 2 months to 12 months.）

Japanese-German Graduate Externship

Mutual graduate curricula are established by collaborating Japanese and German universities, and doctoral students are exchanged between them. In both countries, the students receive guidance with their research and in preparing their dissertations.

Frontiers of Science （FoS） Symposium

These bilateral symposia are held between Japan and the US, Germany and France. Each assembles 30-40 young researchers from the respective countries, who lodge together for three days. The participants are offered an unusual opportunity to engage in cross-disciplinary discussions on cutting-edge scientific topics.

ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference Series for Young Researchers

These conferences provide a platform for young Japanese and European researchers to receive lectures from and engage in discussions with leading international experts in the subject field.

Travel Grant for Attending Lindau Meetings

At Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Nobel laureates give lectures to and hold discussions with young researchers from around the world. JSPS nominates Japanese candidates to the Lindau Council.

HOPE Meetings

These meetings give opportunities for excellent doctoral students selected from countries/areas in the Asian region to engage in interdisciplinary discussions with Novel Laureates and other distinguished scientists.

Holding International Research Conferences in Japan

International Scientific Meetings in Japan

Various costs, including travel expenses for invited overseas researchers and venue costs, are supported for convening international scientific meetings in Japan.

Supporting University Internationalization

Supporting the Overseas Development of Japanese Universities

Faculty and administrators of Japanese universities on overseas assignments are allowed to use JSPS’s overseas offices.

Providing Practical Overseas Training for University Administrative Staffs

JSPS’s Tokyo Head Office and its overseas offices provide practical work experience related to international scientific exchange, along with foreign language training and overseas internships, for administrative staffs of Japanese universities.

Japan Science and Technology Agency （JST）

Support for International Research Exchanges and Joint Research

Strategic International Cooperative Program （SICP） /Strategic International Collaborative Research Program （SICORP）

JST supports international research exchanges and joint research with specific countries in the specific fields of cooperation designated by MEXT on the basis of intergovernmental agreements. JST supports researchers in Japan and the counterpart agency/ministry supports researchers in the counterpart country.

Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development （SATREPS）

SATREPS is a JST and JICA program for research projects targeting global issues and involving partnerships between researchers in Japan and developing countries.