How to create a NOUS
account

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Open the login page for NOUS fromhere( https://nous.nins.jp/user/signin ).
And then click on the New User
button on the login page.

Please note that it may take 2-3 days at
the longest until your account is
activated, because stuff at Okazaki
Administration Center must accept yourrequest. Please do not forget to leaveextra time.

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Make sure the webpage has beenswitched to registration page.

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Enter your full name in the “⽒名(Name in Japanese)” field.

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Enter your family name(姓) and firstname(名) in each field.

5Enter your email address. Ifnecessary, you could add an otheremail address in the “メールアドレス２(Email address2)” field.

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Enter the name of your institute.

Even if you are going to transfer,please register current information.

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Enter the name of your Department.

8Enter your job title.

9Enter your work phone number.
Phone number must be filled toregister your account.

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Fax number is optional. Please enterfax number if necessary.

11Enter your year of birth in the “⻄暦
年⼊⼒(year of birth)” field. If you donot would like to answer, pleaseselect ”答えない(I will not answer.)”.

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Select your gender. If you do notwould like to answer, please select ”
答えない(I will not answer.)”.

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Select your country. “未選択” means“blank”, thus please do not leave thefiled as “未選択”.

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Enter your year of degree. Year ofdegree must be filled to register youraccount.

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Enter your MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI
Researcher Number if you need.

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Click the button
in order to register your ORCID ID. Itʼsoptional, however, if you register theORCID ID here, you could use ORCID
when you register information regardingyour research papers while filling inproposals.

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Select an institution where you aregoing to conduct your research
project in the “照会先機関(ContactInstitution)” field. “未選択” means“blank”, thus please do not leave thefiled as “未選択”. This column must
be answered to finish registering
your information.

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After filling necessary columns,
please click the button Go tomove onto next step. If you would
like to delete all information andenter them again, please click thebutton Clear next to Go .

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Please confirm the webpage has
been switched to confirmation pageand check all information is correct.

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There is the statement concerning
the treatment of your personal
information below the registration
form. Please read the statement inEnglish on the next page.

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The statement Concerning Treatment of Your Personal Information upon New UserRegistration.
Please note:•Your name, institute and job title could be displayed in application forms while representative
researchers are filling them online via NOUS.

•Your personal information in application forms may be provided to both the staff in National
Institutes of National Sciences and the people in other institutes upon examining theproposals with permission from representative researcher.

•In addition, your personal data may be used for conducting, managing research projects youmight join and statistical works at both National Institutes of National Sciences and otherinstitutes involved in the researches.

•Your information will be used only for above purposes.

22After confirming the statement, click on
Register if you agree. Unless you agreethe statement, you can not register youraccount on NOUS. In case you want torevise your information, click on Backto go back to previous page. If you do notagree, please click on Cancel .

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After submitting your registration
form, confirmation mail concerning
acceptance of your request will besent to the address you registered.

Please note that it may take 2-3
days at the longest until youraccount is activated, because stuff
at Okazaki Administration Centermust accept your request. Please do
not forget to leave extra time.
24After your request is accepted, anemail to set up your password will besent via NOUS. Please click the URL
in the massage and open thewebpage.

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Please enter your password in theupper column on Change Password
page.

Passwords should have more than
9 characters, at least one upper orlowercase letter, and one
alphanumeric symbol.

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Please enter the password again in
the lower column for confirmation.

Please take care to enter correct
password.

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Click on the button

Change.

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At this point, your password has
been set. Please confirm that the“Password successfully changed”
message has been displayed at theupper part of the screen.

If you see the error "Alreadychanged", the password setting hasfailed. Please re-enter the password
setting screen from the URL in theuser approval email.

29And then click on NOUS button on
the page and go back to login page
( https://nous.nins.jp/user/signin ).

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Please try to log into NOUS using
your password.

The process of creating a NOUS account is completed.
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Inquiry….

If you have any questions about NOUS, please do not hesitate to contactto us.

Address
Joint Research Section, International Relations and Research Cooperation Division,
Okazaki Administration Center , National Institutes of National Sciences(NINS)
38 Nishigonaka Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585
TELMAIL0564-55-7133
r7133@orion.ac.jp32