ISC Advisory Section

• Location
• Advisory Services
• Office Hours
• Advisory Staff in Graduate Schools
• Orientations

ISC Advisory Section Location

International Student Center, 2nd Floor
Tel 029-853-6240, 6766
Fax 029-853-6240

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Advisory Services

The International Student Center provides consultation services as well as orientation sessions for international students and their tutors. The Center holds orientation sessions several times a year for new students as well as for tutors.

The Advisory Section runs a consulting room on the 2nd floor of the Center, and provides general counseling and consultation services for all international students in order to help them cope with issues they encounter in their academic and daily life. The section also provides support for tutors and academic advisors in matters related to international students.
Short-term exchange students (tokubetsu chokogakusei and tokubetsu kenkyugakusei ) may also seek advice at the Office of Short-Term Exchange Programs. Three faculty members of the office are available for consultation from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The office hours and contact information of each of the three faculty members are posted on the office door.

The center helps international students with the following:

• Problems concerning academic matters. Do not hesitate to contact us for any individual matters.
• Problems concerning daily life (visa, people related matters, etc.). Contact us before it becomes a problem!
• Financial problems
• Advice on psychological and health problems. The advisory staff maintain close contact with their counterparts in the Health Center, especially concerning psychological problems.
• In addition to Japanese, advisory services are available in English, Chinese, and Korean. In the advisory room, international students can consult advisors in their native language. The office for short-term exchange programs provides services in Japanese and English.
• Japanese students (returnee students, etc.) seeking advice are also welcome. Students planning to study abroad can seek advice at the office for short-term exchange programs.

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Office Hours

Faculty members of the Center provide counseling services in turn from Monday to Friday. The work schedule of each member is shown on following table.

* You can consult advisors in Japanese, English and Korean.
** Office hours are subject to change.

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Advisory Staff in Graduate Schools

You can also contact the following advisory staff in graduate schools for advice concerning problems with academic matters, including questions about how to fill the application forms for graduate school entrance examinations, classes you are planning to take, etc.

• Zhen-ya ZHANG (Prof., Graduate School of Environmental Sciences)
• Jie LI (Prof., Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering)
• Hiromi MIKI (Assoc. Prof., Graduate School of Comprehensive Humans Sciences)
• Yasufumi UEKITA (Assoc. Prof., Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences)
• Chihomi SANNAMI (Asst. Prof., Graduate School of Library Information and Media Studies)

Orientations

The center holds orientation meetings in order to provide necessary and accurate information for the newly arrived students and their tutors.

• orientation for privately funded international students: April, September and December (in Japanese).
• orientation for Japanese government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship students: April and October (in English)
• arrival orientation for exchange students: held in Japanese and English at the beginning of each trimester (April, September and December)
• orientation for tutors: April and September (briefing sessions for new tutors)

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