| Azaraimy HH |
THREE Bruneian youths have received a scholarship to study in Japan under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in early April.
The three youths – Han Yean, Lim Kim Suan and Nur’ Azimatul Quddsyiah binti Haji Maidin – met with the Ambassador of Japan to Brunei Darussalam, Noriko Iki yesterday at the Japanese Embassy.
The Government of Japan has been providing various scholarship programmes to foreign youths, including programmes for those who wish to study as research students in graduate schools, as undergraduates, as college of technology students and as specialised training college students.
Han Yean, who graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2012, will be joining as research student at the Graduate School of Creative Science at Waseda University. Lim Kim Suan, a graduate from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2012, will study at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University.
Ambassador of Japan to Brunei Darussalam, Noriko Iki (2ndR) in a group photo with the scholarship re-cipients. – AZARAIMY HH
Nur’ Azimatul Quddsyiah binti Haji Maidin, who graduated from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam in 2014, will study at the Research Faculty of Agriculture at Hokkaido University.
Han Yean and Lim Kim Suan will also take a six-month intensive Japanese Language course at the Tokyo Japanese Language Centre before starting their studies at Waseda.
The Japanese Embassy informed that application forms for the Japanese Government scholarship programmes for 2016-17 will be available from May 2016. The application period will be open till June and successful applicants will be able to start their studies in April 2017.
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