It is the entrance exam high time in Japan. Not only future bachelors but also the future masters are shivering with anticipation. If you think of enrolling in a Japanese university for your master’s degree and consider a two-year master’s program in Humanities, this is just the right section for you. I won’t write about how to enter a Japanese university, every university provides detailed guidelines to the entrance procedures on their webpages. Instead, I will provide information on what career choices await you as a foreign student enrolled in master’s courses in Japan. Not long ago I worked as a one-day assistant during a master’s thesis defense. And although […]

Recently I was scouted as a one-day assistant on master’s thesis defense at my university. My job was to guide the master students in and out of the classrooms where their evaluators were waiting for them. Like Vergilius who guided Dante Alighieri through his Divine Comedy. Most of the graduate students in my faculty are foreign students. I took the liberty of talking to them and discussing their dissertations and their career plans. The scientific fields are chosen based on the applicability of their results My argument is solely based on my personal observations, but it seems that there is a trend for choosing a scientific field when it comes […]