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Want to study and work in Japan? This Malaysian answers all your biggest questions

Want to study and work in Japan? This Malaysian answers all your biggest questions

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 Maryam: Hey guys, welcome back to the Extra Credit Podcast.To all first-time listeners, this is a series where we discuss the beauty, ins and outs of studying abroad with fellow international students, graduates, and faculty members from around the world.I'm Maryam, your host, and today we'll be exploring the exciting life of being an international student in Japan. Everyone's familiar with the country's iconic cuisines, ancient traditions, and inescapable pop culture trends like anime, manga, video games, and more. But for many study abroad hopefuls, Japan is, most importantly, home to world-class universities and quality education as well.On that note, our guest for today, Hazman Baharom, has a lot to share about living, studying, and working in the famous Land of the Rising Sun. As a lecturer for Malay Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hazman has long been curious and passionate about the study of language and culture.In fact, he even speaks six languages, including Japanese, and works on the side as a professional translator, having produced the official Malay translation of best-selling and award-winning Japanese novel, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop.But before all of that, his journey to Japan began as a bright-eyed international student, just like me and you. Hazman, welcome. It's so lovely to have you join us today.How are you?Hazman Baharom: Ah, thank you for having me today. I'm good.Maryam: So Hazman, since 2021, before you kickstarted your career in Japan, you were and still are completing a PhD in political science and government at Waseda University.Hazman Baharom: Yeah.Maryam: That's quite a change from your previous study abroad experience, right, as a Bachelor of Economics student in the UK? So, tell us, why Japan? Has it always been one of your dream destinations as a student?Hazman Baharom: Yeah, thank you so much for the question and thank you for inviting me for this podcast. Well, I guess, when I was in high school, since I studied Japanese for five years, since Form 1 to Form 5, Japan has been one of my preferred destinations to go overseas. But when I got the Yayasan Sime Darby scholarship after my SPM trials, I was offered to [go to] the UK. So then, I was like, okay, I'll go to the UK first. And then, my dream to go to Japan was buried for a while.But after I came back to Malaysia in 2018, I represented Malaysia for one of the programmes called Talk with Muslims, organised by Japan Foundation.So, Japan Foundation selected 10 students from Southeast Asia and two from Malaysia. One is me and the other one is Dr. Raudah. She is currently, I think, in the US.So, I came to Japan, and then we discussed a lot of things about Japanese culture and Muslim culture. And I got to know my supervisor during that time, my PhD supervisor who is Japanese. He is an expert in Indonesian Islamic movements.So, if you listen to him speaking Indonesian, you will think that he is an Indonesian, but he is actually Japanese. So yeah, that's my PhD supervisor.So, that's one of the reasons. My research now is about the Malaysian Islamic party, PAS. Uh, I think since there is a similarity between both of our interests, I selected to study here.Second, I am obsessed with Japanese literature and that is why I translated Japanese novels. So, I think, why not come to Japan since I will have, like, [an] unlimited supply of Japanese literature to read, right?So, yeah. So, these are my two biggest reasons coming to Japan.Maryam: So, you will say that, doing your PhD in Japan is kind of like your second chance at studying in your dream country.Hazman Baharom: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, it became a dream country, and then it was buried for a little while. And then, I guess, my trip to Japan under Japan Foundation, back in 2018, reignited that dream somehow. Maryam: Nice. Okay, but you also won a full-ride postgraduate scholarship under the MEXT scholarship programme. Hazman Baharom: Yes.Maryam: Yet, in 2024 alone, almost 10,000 students applied for the MEXT scholarship, but only six applicants were recommended. So, Hazman, can you share with us your secrets and tips behind securing such a coveted slot?Hazman Baharom: Mhmm, thank you so much. I love to do this because I think a lot of people deserve to get this, but many of them just don't have enough information on how to strategise their application.So, I guess, the most important thing is, be clear about what you want to research about. For example, if you are planning to do your PhD in Japan and you are planning to do something related to, well, I don't know. Now, probably the most famous idea that people are talking probably is about AI, right? AI in education, AI in economics, AI in whatever.So, if you are researching AI in Japan, you need to be clear about what specific aspect of AI you want to research about.So, the Japanese professors, being experts in that field – they want to know about what you want to do, right? And they want to know that ...
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