Phnom Penh (FN), Aug. 6 – The Young Leaders' Program (YLP) is one of the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship Programs commenced in 2001. YLP aims to contribute to cultivate future national leaders in Asian and other countries, moreover, to contribute to establish friendly relationship among various countries and to improve policy planning activities by forming a network among national leaders through deepening their understanding of Japan.

Eligibility Requirements and Application Procedures

(1) Applicants must have graduated with excellent grades from a university and be able to study in a Japanese university for one year.

(2) Applicants must meet all qualifications and requirements stated in the Application Guidelines of each course. The requirements must be observed strictly, and any personal exceptions will not be allowed.

(3) The number of grantees is limited, and all candidates will be evaluated comparatively. Therefore, candidates who meet all qualifications still might not be selected. (It is also possible that none of the candidates from your institution will be selected.) Please take this point into consideration when recommending candidates.

(4) Some students in the past returned to their respective home countries without completing the program due to mental or physical problems. In addition, some students required long-term treatment because they had come to Japan without completely curing infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, typhus, malaria, dysentery, and so on. With due consideration given to the fact that the students will be staying for a long period in a country with a very different environment from that in the home country, please make very sure of the student’s medical condition (including past medical history), and try to ensure that any student with an illness requiring treatment receives such treatment before coming to Japan.

(5) Military personnel or military civilian employees at the time of their arrival in Japan and/or during the period of the payment of the scholarship are not eligible.

(6) Make sure applicants are not applying for another program for which scholarship payments will begin in fiscal year 2025 through Japanese government including JDS.

Deadline: 20 September 2024

For more detail: https://www.kh.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/11_000001_00967.html
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