CNEAS Visiting Fellows Call for Applications
(Term of Fellowship during the period between October 2025 and September 2026)
The Center for Northeast Asian Studies (CNEAS), Tohoku University（Sendai, Japan）, is seeking visiting fellows. Our center has a visiting fellowship program to promote cooperative research activities with distinguished researchers in Northeast Asian Studies who have full-time posts in research institutes abroad. In this program, researchers accepted as visiting fellows will be provided with traveling costs from/to their home countries and a salary to cover living expenses in Japan, as well as various research resources of the Center and opportunities to carry out cooperative research with CNEAS staff and faculty.
The Center provides Fellows with the following:
1) One round-trip ticket (economy class) between the place of work of the successful applicant and Sendai. Please note the applicant is required to arrive directly in Sendai from the place of work when starting the fellowship, and go directly home after its completion, without stopovers. Otherwise CNEAS will not cover the air ticket. Fellows are welcome to bring their family, but at their own expense. Fellows must pay any shipping and customs clearance charges for their own luggage.
2) The salary is approximately 400,000 yen to 600,000 yen (before tax and etc.) per month, depending on the applicant’s present status.
3) The visiting fellow is required to join the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Mutual Aid Association, which contains health insurance and pension programs.
4) Successful visiting fellows will be provided with their own desk, bookshelf and internet connection. They can also use the university library and have full access to the university-subscribed electronic journals.
5) Fellows may use the university accommodation during the fellowship program but in case of no vacancy they will need to find a private flat with the aid of the International Support Center of the Tohoku University.
Fellowship Periods and Posts
This call for CNEAS Visiting Fellows is for the term from 1st October 2025 to 30th September 2026 (Term 2025-2026).
The minimum fellowship period is 3 months (more than 91 days) and maximum is 6 months during October 2025 to September 2026.
For the 2025-2026 term, there are 8 posts of an average 3 months stay available.
After the selection process, CNEAS reserves the right to decide the period of stay for the nominated applicants at the Center. Nominated applicants cannot set the precise period of stay beyond Term 2025-2026.
Obligations
Researchers accepted as visiting fellows are required to give at least one lecture on their research topic during their stay in CNEAS, and are also required to write a short essay on their studies for our Center newsletter. They may be required to present their talk in a seminar or symposium organized by CNEAS. The researchers are also welcome to contribute to Northeast Asian Studies, an interdisciplinary journal of the Center.
Eligibility
Applicants are required to satisfy all of the following conditions:
1) Researchers employed in universities, or related academic institutes are required to get the permission of the application of CNEAS visiting fellow from the responsible person of their organization.
2) Researchers are required to submit two letters of recommendation by referees who are familiar with the applicant’s research and who work in similar disciplines/fields.
3) Researchers must hold a PhD degree. This fellowship is not available to individuals currently pursuing graduate degrees or post-doctoral studies.
4) Prior to applying, researchers must contact one of the permanent research staff of CNEAS (host scholar) in advance, and receive his/her agreement on the acceptance of them as visiting researchers.
5) Researchers may neither hold Japanese nationality nor hold permanent job posts in Japan.
6) Researchers must be under 70 years old.
7) Researchers who have academic achievements in Northeast Asian Studies, whether in the humanities, social sciences or natural sciences, are expected to participate in collaborative research organized by CNEAS, contribute to the Center’s digital archives, and present at lectures and symposia at the University.
Application Procedure
Please download the application form and send the completed form in PDF format by E-mail to: internationalcneas@grp.tohoku.ac.jp .
The deadline for applications for the 2025-2026 visiting fellowship is January 10, 2025. Applicants will be notified of the results by the end of March 2025 by e-mail. Individual queries about the results of selection sent prior to this time by email, fax, or telephone will not receive a response.
Flyer ( PDF file 328KB)
