EJU Japan and the World

The EJU is administered by JASSO, the Japan Student Services Organization, which publishes the official examination schedule, venues, and guidance for examinees. This page is an independent study resource written for candidates and is not affiliated with or endorsed by JASSO. Confirm all dates, fees, and subject requirements on JASSO's official pages before you act.

JASSO states that the exam evaluates whether international students who wish to study at the undergraduate level at universities or other such higher educational institutions in Japan possess the Japanese language skills and the basic academic abilities needed to study at those institutions. Individual universities then decide how to use the score in their own admission screening.

JASSO refers to a first session and a second session, so the exam is offered twice a year. Exact test dates, application periods, and result announcement dates are published by JASSO each cycle and are not fixed here. Plan around the session that matches your target university's application deadline.

There is no universal answer: each university specifies which subjects and which score it requires for each faculty. Identify two or three target universities first, read their guidelines for international applicants, and only then decide which academic subject to prepare. Preparing a subject no target university accepts wastes months of study time.

Difficulty is relative to your starting level, especially in Japanese, where reading speed and vocabulary breadth usually decide the outcome. A realistic cycle is several months of steady study. Begin with a full timed mock under exam conditions, identify your weakest section, and rebuild from there rather than reviewing everything at once.

Because the exam runs in two sessions per year, most candidates can sit again in a later session, and many universities accept scores from a specified session or set of sessions. Whether a retake is permitted for your target programme, and which sitting's score is accepted, is set by each university, so check its guidelines.

Studying without checking requirements. Candidates often drill a subject for months, then discover their target faculty requires a different one, or that the accepted session has already passed. Confirm the required subjects and the accepted sitting first, then build a study plan around them.

JASSO publishes examination venues, guidance for examinees, and notices about examination vouchers on its official EJU pages, and updates them as each session approaches. Read those notices yourself before exam day. This independent page does not reproduce venue lists, voucher procedures, or session-specific instructions.