AY2025 Semester 2 Fee Waivers Announced

The University offers AY2025 Second Semester Entrance Fee Waiver (Deferment) and Tuition Fee Waiver as follows. Please carefully read the "Application Guideline" before submitting your application.

Note: The requirements and application procedures for the fee waiver (deferment) system are regularly reviewed. Please refer to the latest Application Guideline when submitting your application.

1. Waiver (Deferment) Categories and Eligible Students:

  1. Entrance Fee Waiver based on the New Higher Education Support System

    Eligible students: New Japanese undergraduate students

  2. Tuition Fee Waiver based on the New Higher Education Support System

    Eligible students: Japanese undergraduate student

    *As of the end of September 2025, those recognized as JASSO grant-type scholarship recipients do not need to reapply for a tuition fee waiver (excluding those whose scholarships are suspended due to academic performance or set to expire by the end of September).

  3. HU Waiver System Entrance Fee Waiver (Deferment), Deferment Only

    Eligible students: New international undergraduate students and new graduate students

  4. HU Waiver System Tuition Fee Waiver

    Eligible students: Both undergraduate and graduate students

    *Even if you selected "Combined First/Second Semester Application" during the first semester application period, if there are any changes to your application details (family circumstances, educational circumstances, financial circumstances of the household, or commuting category, etc.) from the first semester (as of April 1) to the second semester application (as of October 1), you must submit a "Second Semester Application Modification" during the second semester application period. If there are no changes, no additional application is required for the second semester.

2. Application Period

  • New students: The date specified by each school or graduate school (kenkyu-ka)
  • Current students: Monday, September 1 - Tuesday, October 7, 2025, by 5:00 PM

*If you are unable to submit all required documents within the period stated above, or if any additions or corrections to the application forms become necessary after submission, please submit the additional materials by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 17, 2025.

3. Download Application Documents

August 25, 2025

Student Support Division (Shogaku Shien), Academic Affairs Department

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