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Thinking About Studying in Japan? Here’s What the Latest Visa Fee Change Means for You

Japan revised its consular fee framework on 1 July 2026, and the change has been reported widely enough that students are now asking whether…

Dr. Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
02/09/2026
7 min read
A chalkboard on a blue wooden wall reading あなたは日本語を話せますか? beside a Japanese flag, a pot of coloured pencils and a stack of books
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How a Japanese Language Course in Japan Can Accelerate Your Fluency and Cultural Experience

Studying Japanese from India — in a weekend class, or through an app — takes you a certain distance and then stops. The grammar…

Aswathy Mohandas
25/08/2026
9 min read
Japan Scholarship for International Students: Funding Opportunities You Should Know About — a pink ceramic piggy bank wearing a black graduation cap with the word Scholarship written on it
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Japan Scholarship for International Students: Funding Opportunities You Should Know About

Most guides to Japanese scholarships list the awards. That is the easy half. The harder and more useful question is which of them you…

Dr. Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
25/08/2026
9 min read
How MEXT Japan Can Help You Earn a World-Class Education Without Financial Burden — a magnifying glass held over a black graduation cap with the word Scholarship written across it
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How MEXT Japan Can Help You Earn a World-Class Education Without Financial Burden

Most students first meet MEXT as a phrase — “fully funded” — and never get a straight answer about what that actually means in…

Dr. Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
25/08/2026
7 min read
Are Japanese Courses in Tokyo Better Than Learning Japanese in Your Home Country? — a teacher smiling in front of a whiteboard in a bright classroom, with students seated around her
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Are Japanese Courses in Tokyo Better Than Learning Japanese in Your Home Country?

Flying to Tokyo feels like the serious way to learn Japanese, and a class in Chennai or Pune feels like the compromise. That instinct…

Aswathy Mohandas
25/08/2026
7 min read
Is Okinawa OIST the Right Choice for Your Research Ambitions? — four students leaning over an open book together outdoors, reading and talking
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Is Okinawa OIST the Right Choice for Your Research Ambitions?

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology is the strangest research university in Japan, and for a certain kind of researcher that is exactly…

Dr. Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
25/08/2026
9 min read
How Can You Improve Your Chances of Winning a Scholarship for Foreign Students in Japan? — a student in a blue sweatshirt writing at a library desk beside an open laptop, tall shelves of books behind her
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How Can You Improve Your Chances of Winning a Scholarship for Foreign Students in Japan?

Scholarship panels in Japan reject very few people for being insufficiently clever. They reject them for vagueness — a research plan that could have…

Dr. Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
24/08/2026
8 min read
Study Japanese in Japan: What to Know Before Choosing a Language School — three students laughing together at a library table stacked with textbooks, tall bookshelves behind them
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Study Japanese in Japan: What to Know Before Choosing a Language School

Choosing a Japanese language school is not really a language decision. It is a visa decision, a housing decision, a budget decision and, if…

Aswathy Mohandas
24/08/2026
9 min read
Which Japanese Language Course Tokyo Offers the Best Learning Experience? — a close-up of a page of Japanese text in vertical brush-written columns on cream paper, bound with a dark red spine and lying on a wooden desk
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Which Japanese Language Course Tokyo Offers the Best Learning Experience?

Tokyo has more Japanese language schools than any other city on earth, and from the outside they are almost indistinguishable. Every one of them…

Aswathy Mohandas
24/08/2026
10 min read
Universities in Japan International Students Should Consider Before Applying — a smiling woman in a pale blue shirt holding a fanned bunch of small national flags in front of her in a bright office
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Universities in Japan International Students Should Consider Before Applying

Japan looks opaque from the outside — a different script, an unfamiliar academic calendar, a classroom culture nobody describes to you in advance. Underneath…

Dr. Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
24/08/2026
9 min read