Important Announcement: Orientation in September 2024, Placement Test and Others

Status of Residence・Contact Information Confirmation Form (Mandatory for ALL students)

1. Please download the "Residence Card Image Submission Format (Excel)" mentioned above.
2. Please take pictures of your residence card (front-back both sides) and student ID card (front side only) and paste on the designated places of the submission format.
3. Please access the web form above, enter your personal information: faculty or graduate school, contact information, address, and items on the residence card, and upload the “Residence Card Image Submission Format (Excel)” above-referenced.

• In order to use the web form, the user ID and password issued by Doshisha University are required. The log-in information will be notified you after September 21st. 
• If you don't know how to check your log-in information, please contact to the Office of International Students or the office of your faculty or graduate school.
• Please report that you do not have a residence card yet via this web form if you are not in Japan yet and cannot submit the data of residence card by the deadline. After you enter Japan and get a new residence card, please take pictures of your residence card (front-back both sides) and student ID card (front side only) and paste on the designated places of the submission format and submit it to OIS via the web form.

Submission of the Doshisha University Self-Financed International Student Scholarship Recommendation Request Form

1. A self-financed regular student holding a “Student Visa”
   ※Students in double-degree programs with college student visas are among those considered regular students.
   ※Those who don't currently hold a “Student Visa” since you are unable to enter Japan due to the specific reason are also eligible for applying this as long as you are expected to hold it once you come to Japan.
2. A self-financed regular student who was accepted to Doshisha University via the “Examination for International Students”
   ※If you have been already awarded an outside scholarship for the 2024–2025 academic year or are scheduled to receive an outside scholarship until your graduation, you are not eligible to be nominated, so submission of the “Request Form” is not required.

1. Please download the "Scholarship Recommendation Request Form (Excel)" mentioned above.
2. Please fill in the "Scholarship Recommendation Request Form (Excel)".
3. Please access the web form above, enter your personal information: faculty or graduate school, contact information, and upload the "Scholarship Recommendation Request Form (Excel)" above-referenced.

• The “Scholarship Recommendation Request Form” is not an application form for any particular scholarship. Submission of the “Scholarship Recommendation Request Form” expresses that you would like to be nominated to a scholarship requiring a university recommendation (such as a JASSO scholarship). The “Scholarship Recommendation Request Form” is used as reference material when we select candidates for scholarships.
• If you are nominated, the OIS will contact you by phone or e-mail. The period of nomination varies by scholarship, so you may be contacted at any time during the year. Students who are not nominated will not be contacted.
• If you fail to submit the “Scholarship Recommendation Request Form” by the deadline, you will not be qualified to be nominated for any scholarships requiring a university recommendation during the 2024 academic year.
• In order to use the web form, the user ID and password issued by Doshisha University are required. The log-in information will be notified you after September 21st. 

Orientation for newly enrolled international students in the academic year 2024 (Fall semester)

How to be held

Date

About attendance (Mandatory for all students)

Attendance form

Deadline

Notes

Venue

Japanese Language Placement Test

Schedule

Eligible students (Those who will enroll in 2024 fall semester)

• You will not be allowed to take Japanese language and culture subjects for international students if you have not taken the placement test.
• The placement test consists only of an online test. There will be no oral exam. However, there may be cases where consultation at counseling for course registration is required to finalize the Japanese learning level. For the students who need to have a consultation, the instruction will be given in the Japanese level notification email.
• For course list of Japanese Language and Culture Subjects for international students, you can refer to the university website.
• “Basic Japanese” is only available for ILA students. For details, please contact: The office of the Institute for the Liberal Arts:ji-ila@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
• For course overview of “Japanese Language Introductory Course,” please contact your faculty/graduate school office.
• We will not accept any inquiry regarding the test format, examination questions and past examination questions.
• If you were unable to take the Japanese Language Placement Test during the designated period, please apply for the make-up test from the application web form.
  [Application Period (JST)] 10:00 a.m.on Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 ~ 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, September 8th, 2024 
  
  [Test Period (JST)] 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 9th, 2024 ~ 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
  
  [Test URL] You will be notified via email on Monday, September 9th, 2024.
  

English Language Placement test (CASEC)

Support service for newly enrolled international students in the academic year 2024 (Fall semester)

Support service for Kyoto city ward office procedures

Contents

Date and time

1. Start from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
2. Start from 1:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Application Deadline & How to apply

Application requirements

Support service to open a JP bank account

Contents

Date and time

1. 9:30 a.m.
2. 10:30 a.m.
3. 11:30 a.m.
4. 1:30 p.m.
5. 2:30 p.m.

Application Deadline & How to apply

Application requirements

Convocation Ceremony

Regarding riding a bicycle

Important notice for riding a bicycle in Japan

How to commute by a bicycle

Orientation Materials

Schedule of distribution of registration documents and registration guidance of faculties & graduate schools

Handbook for International Students

The National Health Insurance Guidebook(By Kyoto City)

Placement Guide book for International Students from Career Center

Comprehensive Insurance for Student Lives Coupled with Gakkensai

For Prevention of Campus Harassment

Kyoto Safety Navi; To ride a bicycle in Kyoto

Permission to Engage in Activity other than that Permitted under the Status of Residence Previously Granted
Certificate of Employment［PDF 97KB］

Procedures at Kyoto City Ward office or a Kyotanabe City Office

Guidance for opening Japan Post Bank

Support for Challenged Students

Annoucement from Doshisha CO-OP

Doshisha University Library eBooks