PhD Opportunities in Kyoto University, Japan

When I was in Nagoya University, my airfares and livings are funded by the COE grant. Now there's open scholarships for students all around the world to do a PhD in Kyoto University. (Kyoto is a very lovely city - see my travel pictures here, here and here =p!)

The Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, has announced a new PhD
studentship opportunity in cooperation with a Japanese governmental project
called the Global COE program. Attached is the Call for PhD Student who can
enter Kyoto University from October 2008. The notable features of the program
are summarized as follows:

(1) All the accepted PhD students (totally 8 positions) are regarded as
students supported by Japanese Govenment.
(2) All the accepted PhD students are provided about 220,000 Japanese yen per a
month for three years. (That's around usd2,200!)
(3) All the accepted PhD students can apply to the "young leader fostering
program" of the fiscal year 2009. When accepted, each accepted applicant will
be provided the research fund (about 1 million - 1.5 million Japanese Yen) from
the Global COE program.

The deadline of the application is: January 10th, 2008. Notification of
acceptance/rejection will be provided from Kyoto Univeristy in March 2008
(final notification from Japanese government will be sent to July 2008.)
Accepted applicants must enter PhD course from October 2008.

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Katsumi Tanaka, Professor
Dept. of Social Informatics,
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501,Japan
Email: tanaka@dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tel : +81-75-753-5969
Secretary: +81-75-753-5385
Fax: +81-75-753-5979
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