INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ADVISING ROOM

Hours:  10:a.m.to 6:00p.m. from Monday to Friday
Address: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
         The University of Tokyo
         7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Tel & Fax : 03-5841-4878
Staff: KIKUCHI, Mikiko (Lecturer)

Activities


  The International Student Advising Room was established in September 1994, and its activities are as follows:

š  Advising & Counseling Service
š  Japanese Language Class
š  Information for Prospective International Students
š  Inter-University Academic Exchange Program@
š  Others (projects & events)

™  Advising & Counseling Service
 The advising room offers advisory assistance and provides a counseling service, and the services in Japanese or English are available to all international students & foreign researchers to
help make their university or Japanese experience comfortable and
successful.  Advising and counseling may be about matters   concerning studies and Japanese language, or financial problems and
other problems related to visas, housing, side job, family, and
cultural or personal difficulties.

™  Japanese Language Class
 Starting from September of 1994, the advising room offers Japanese language class (beginning and intermediate) for learning daily survival Japanese as well as basic technical Japanese.
More advanced classes to focus on advanced technical Japanese
for science majors are in the planning stage.
 The present schedules are as follows:
  Beginning: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30`4:00 p.m.
  Intermediate: Tuesday & Thursday 4:00`6:00 p.m.
 

™  Inter-University Academic Exchange Program@

 The formal agreement for the academic exchange between Shenyang
Pharmaceutical University, China and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo was signed in February 1997.  Our Graduate School has accepted three short-term students from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University up to now, and this year for the first time, three Japanese graduate students were selected to be sent to China.  The advising room is coordinating this progam.

™  Others (projects & events)
 Since the opening of the advising room, it has been used for the exchange of a wide range of information.  To promote excange
among international students and also between international students and Japanese students, several events such as an orientation tea party, an educational trip, and a social gathering for international students & foreign researchers are planned this year.