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International students who are enrolling Hosei University from Spring 2025
2024.12.06
Congratulations on your pass to Hosei University.
We will inform you of the procedures for international students enrolling Spring 2025. This information will be updated as needed.
Orientation (Guidance)
The orientation for international students will be implemented face to face. Those whose residence status are/ will be “Student” must attend this orientation.
Ichigaya and Koganei campus students
- Date and Time: March 31
- Place: Fujimi Gate G201, Ichigaya Campus
- Contents: Residence status, Tuition reduction, Scholarship, etc.
Tama campus students
- Date and Time: March 31
- Place: Sougou-tou, Tama Campus *classroom will be notified later
- Contents: Residence status, Tuition reduction, Scholarship, etc.
*The campus tour and welcome party will be held.
Renewal period of your stay for those who are living in Japan
Students who have paid the enrollment fee are eligible to apply for renewing the residence card to Hosei. Please apply by the URL below. Application can be accepted from 3 months prior to the expiration date.
*In case you apply for it before the enrollment, you have to submit the “Certificate of enrollment” with other necessary documents to Immigration Bureau. GEC office will send it to undergraduate students. Those who are graduate students need to apply for issuing the certificate to their graduate office before applying the following.
*If you have moved to a new address due to enrollment, please complete your resident registration at your municipal office and get the new address information on the back of your residence card before submitting the following application. Also, please refer to the "Procedures for living in Japan: Moving checklist" on this page.
Documents required for a ‘Notification of the Accepting Organization’
If you attend another school in Japan and enter Hosei University immediately after graduation from that school, you need to submit the following notification to Immigration Bureau. (No notification is required if you have already submitted a notification at the time of the graduation from your previous school.)
- Notification of the Accepting Organization
- Not required for those who have already applied for renewal period of your stay at Hosei.
- If you enter Hosei University from another school, use the format of "Accepting organization: left・transfer".
- Hosei University’s corporate number is 4010005002359.
In the event of any change in items described on your residence card other than your place of residence (e.g., your name, date of birth, gender, nationality/region, etc.), please notify the immigration bureau within 14 days.
For those who lives abroad and have not yet obtained “Student” status, or for those who are in Japan with a short-term visitor visa
All international students have to obtain “Student” status by applying a Certificate of Eligibility, COE and need to apply for a visa at Japanese Embassy/ Consulate general in your country.
For those who have not applied for the visa and wish to ask for the proxy application, please contact Global Education Center, gso@hosei.ac.jp as soon as possible.
It will take about two months to issue COE. The delay of your application may causes you not arriving in Japan by the time of the entrance ceremony. Please keep in your mind that all procedures regarding the residence card need plenty of time.
Reservation holders of “Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship for Privately-Financed International Students”
Get your My Page ID by URL below if you are a reservation holder. Then, apply the following.
- Application to Hosei
After we confirm your enrollment payment, we will email you Certificate of enrollment. - JASSO Online Form 【Deadline: March 28】
With the Certificate of enrollment, register Hosei university as your host institution.
- Students must have a Yucho bank account for receiving the Jasso scholarship. Open a Yucho bank account as soon as possible if you do not have it. Please be aware that you cannot open a Yucho bank account if your residence period remain less than 3 months. In case your period of stay is only 3 months or less, apply for the extension of your period of stay urgently. (check the above "Renewal period of your stay for those who are living in Japan".)
- EJU Online Get My page ID
- How to open a Yucho bank account
Issuing Certificate of enrollment
If you need the Certificate of enrollment, send an application form(入学許可通知書発行申請書) to GEC office by email. (gso@hosei.ac.jp) For graduate programs, ask your faculty for Certificate of enrollment.
Leave of absence for the military service after your enrollment
You may take a leave of absence for your country’s military service even from right after your enrollment. If you have a plan to do so, notify Global Education Center, gso@hosei.ac.jp
After all procedures are completed and confirmed, the tuition fee of the first spring semester and an equivalent amount of registration fees will be paid as a scholarship.
