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Contact International Center.
Note that neither the application forms nor the application guidelines can be sent via email or email attachment.
Application form can be downloaded from the following link.
1) 2014-2015 HIF Foreign Scholars Fellowship Application Form
Download \[PDF\][PDF|http://www.hosei.ac.jp/ic/en/research/hif/2014/downloads/hifAppForm_2014-2015.pdf] 
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Contact and Mailing Address
Coordinator, HIF Foreign Scholars Fellowship
International Center, Hosei University
2-17-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8160 Japan
Fax: \+81-3-3264-4624
E-mail: hif@hosei.ac.jp
Application Deadline
Application documents must reach the International Center of Hosei University by Friday, June 7, 2013.
What to Include in Application
Prescribed HIF Fellowship application form for academic year 2014-2015
Two complete copies of applicant’s book, or thesis considered most significant in his/her academic career (two copies of the same one, article of the book/thesis is unacceptable)
An abstract for the submitted copy above in either Japanese or English (approximately 2 \[A4 or 210 mm x 297 mm\] pages)
One letter of recommendation from the head of the institution with which the applicant is affiliated (Rec-1).
One letter of recommendation from the applicant’s supervisor or instructor attesting to the applicant’s research(Rec-2).
A recommendation letter from an academic advisor you name for this program will not be accepted.
Official degree certificate, accompanied by an official translation into either Japanese or English if the certificate is in neither of these languages.
Certificate attesting to institution presently enrolled in or affiliated with, accompanied by an official translation into either Japanese or English if the certificate is in neither of these languages.
Certificate of applicant’s Japanese or English ability (TOEFL® score etc.) or a letter from the applicant’s supervisor or instructor attesting to the applicant’s Japanese or English ability if there is neither result nor score of examinations to certify the ability.
\*This is not required for native language
Check sheet
2) 2014-2015 HIF Foreign Scholars Fellowship - Check Sheet -
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Note
Application documents should be prepared in English or Japanese.
application form must be the one issued for academic year 2014-2015 by Hosei University (photocopy admissible)
All required information should be set down in the application form.
Note that attached documents explaining certain items will invalidate the application.
Item 18 of the Application Form regarding the research advisor at Hosei must be filled in or the application will not be considered valid.
Research advisor
·   It is not mandatory that you have the approval or the consent from Hosei professor to become your research advisor at the time of application.
·   It is required for you to search our website and decide the most adequate professor and fill the application form Item 17 with reason.
·   Information and the academic field of Hosei academic staff can be referred at the following website:
≫ [http://kenkyu-web.i.hosei.ac.jp/scripts/websearch/]
Please push the button \[English\] on the upper left side of the site
·   Once you become the nominee for the HIF position, International Center will contact the designated professor and request to become your academic advisor.
Letters of recommendation must clearly specify writers’ occupations and titles, and must be submitted in sealed envelopes.
Recommendations must be recent and written exclusively for the HIF Fellowship application.
If submitted documents are incomplete, found unsatisfactory, false, or exceed what is requested, your application will not be accepted.
Papers and documents submitted will not be returned to the applicant. Hosei University will observe the related domestic law to protect personal data obtained from applicants and will use them only for the purpose of executing the HIF Foreign Scholars Fellowship Program.
Written inquiries concerning the program will be accepted if received
by Friday, May 17, 2013.
You can use the check sheet for your final confirmation. Please put it at the top of all other documents for the submission.
Selection Procedure
A committee will be set up to select HIF Fellowship recipients according to the documents submitted. The results will be sent out to all applicants on December 6, 2013.