Education System and Learning Japanese-Language

Education Support System

Educational support for elementary and junior high school students

[Financial aid for attending school]

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The municipalities provide financial aids for those low-income guardians (those raising children such as fathers and mothers) of elementary or junior high school students to purchase school supplies such as a school backpack, stationeries, uniform, and pay for school lunches.

Ask your local municipal office for more details.

Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education: Notice of financial aid program for attending school (Japanese)

 

 

Educational support for high school students

[Finical aid for high school tuition]

The national government provides financial aids to cover tuition for high school students.

Those guardians (those raising the child such as father and mother) whose annual income is lower than 9.6 million yen is eligible for this aid.

Schools will inform the necessary procedures when they are required such as in April of the freshman year.

The money is sent to schools so that students and parents cannot receive them directly.

 

[Financial aid for attending high school]

Financial aid is provided to cover expenses such as textbooks, teaching materials, school excursions, etc. other than tuition fees for those low-income guardians of high school students (those raising children such as fathers and mothers).

Applications are accepted around July every year.

Ask your school or your local municipal office for more details.

 

 

Support for children to take high school or college entrance exams

[Challenge Support Loan Program for students preparing for entrance exams]

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This is a loan to cover expenses to attend tutoring schools, examination fees, etc.  for students in senior year of junior high or high school who are preparing for entrance exams for high school or university.

The loan is forgiven if enrollment into high school or university is successful.

There are conditions to borrow money, such as the guardians of students (those raising children such as fathers and mothers) having low income.

 Ask your local municipal office for more details.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health: Challenge Support Loan Program for Students Preparing for Entrance Exams(with machine translation)

 

 

Various scholarships

"Scholarship" is a program that lends or gives money to pay for tuition (money necessary for studying) to those who have difficulty to continue their education at high school or university due to financial problems.

There are two types of scholarships:

Grant programs: Programs that do not need to be repaid in the future

Loan programs: Programs that are repaid little by little after graduating from school

In addition to the national government, prefectural governments, and private organizations, some schools may provide scholarships.

Students can find a scholarship that best fits them.

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