Event

Meeting Minds Global 2021
Meeting Minds Global will take place online in the week of 12 – 17 April 2021. This will be a major opportunity for alumni to hear from academics from across our academic community.
Oxford has strong links with Japan. The Bodleian received its first Japanese book in 1629, and the first Japanese student, Tomotsune Iwakura, came to the University in 1873. There are countless research collaborations between Oxford and many of the leading universities and companies from Japan. The University has one of the best departments in the world for Japanese Studies, and is home to both the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Oriental Institute, in which Japanese is taught as an undergraduate subject.
Meeting Minds Global will take place online in the week of 12 – 17 April 2021. This will be a major opportunity for alumni to hear from academics from across our academic community.
The Nissan Seminars will all be held online in Hilary term. This long-running series of seminars about Japanese Studies is organised by Oxford’s Nissan Institute.
Applications for the 2021 Oxford Uehiro St Cross Visiting Programme will be accepted from 15 February – 15 March 2021. This programme allows specialists from Japan to spend a year at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
Interim results from the Phase III trials of the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine show that it is effective at preventing Covid-19 and offers a high level of protection.
Support Oxford’s important work in coronavirus research by making a donation. Academics from around the University are working on a variety of urgent projects to find solutions to the deadly virus.
Applications are now open for admissions to all graduate courses starting in 2021-22. If you are hoping to become a graduate student at Oxford, please read on for more information.
The University’s first new college in 30 years will accept its first students from 2021 and will be called Reuben College.
There are a number of scholarships available, some of which are specifically aimed at Japanese candidates.
Oxford also provides hundreds of other scholarships that are open to students regardless of their nationality. You can search for scholarships on our Fees and Funding website.
Donors from Japan have played a key role in providing important funding for Oxford which has had a huge impact on the University. Your donation makes a true difference in many important ways. It helps provide scholarships for the best minds internationally, it endows posts that allow us to attract the world’s academic elite, and it supports the University’s unique and precious buildings—the buildings where cutting-edge research is conducted and where our cultural and intellectual heritage is protected and made available for generations to come.
We have approximately 1,500 University of Oxford alumni currently in Japan, and a number of active alumni societies.
Please contact these societies directly to find out about their latest activities. In addition, the University of Oxford Japan Office regularly holds academic and social events including our popular Oxford Academics in Japan lecture series. These events strengthen ties between Oxford alumni and friends of the University. If you were at Oxford, please update your contact details on the Alumni website or contact us to ensure we can invite you to our events.
We have also compiled answers to the questions we get most frequently asked here in Japan.