Deadlines for this scholarship
An award closing is only the first of the dates that matter. After it there is the deposit that keeps your place, the unconditional offer the funder wants to see before it pays, and a last day to arrive and register. Where the funder publishes none of these, the row says so — a blank is what the official page actually says, not something we have left out.
No closing date published. This funder sets its closing date per country, or opens the call only when the cycle begins. Send us your documents and we will apply the moment your country’s window opens.
Who can apply
Yes - open to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Gulf nationals through the Japanese embassy/consulate-general in their country of residence; no nationality is excluded by MEXT.
What the award is
MEXT graduate award for research (master's and doctoral) study at Japanese universities, applied through the Japanese embassy. Embassies normally open applications around April-May annually; the 2027-intake round a student would apply to now had no published closing date, so none is given. Coverage includes full tuition, round-trip airfare and a monthly stipend of about JPY 144,000 for master's and JPY 145,000 for doctoral students (as listed on the official host-university MEXT page). Official source: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/education-campus/procedures/scholarships/mext (checked 29 October 2026).Where these dates came from
The official JASSO page says "Recruitment for those arriving in Japan in April 2027 or September/October 2027 is made between April and May of the previous year", i.e. the 2027-entry embassy round closed in spring 2026, so it is not listed as a deadline - https://www.studyinjapan.go.jp/en/smap-stopj-applications-research.html (checked 30 October 2026); JASSO prints no exact dates for the next cycle and embassy pages (e.g. pk.emb-japan.go.jp) returned 403 to our fetches, so all columns are blank.
Deadlines move. Always confirm on the funder's own page before you book anything — the link above is where we read it.
