AY 2025
Entrance Examination Guideline for the
Application Guidefor Master’s Program of International Health2025 年度国際保健学専攻修士課程
学生募集要項 入学試験案内- Entrance Examination Guideline（入学試験案内）- List of Supervisors（指導教員一覧）- Regarding Foreign Language Examination（修士課程入試の外国語について）- Past exam
（過去問題について）

東京大学大学院医学系研究科
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo

国際保健学専攻 修士
School of International Health, MA

AY 2025 Entrance Examination Guideline
For the Application Guide for Master ’s Program of International Health
Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
This leaflet supplements the information given in the 2024 Application Guide: Master’s Program,
Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Therefore, applicants should refer to both
documents. While this leaflet provides information specifically on the School of International Health,the Application Guide covers issues applicable to all the master’s programs in the Graduate School of
Medicine.

1. About the School of International Health:
Our mission is to address global challenges as well as local issues in the field of international health,that encompasses environmental health, infectious diseases, and human genetics, through healthpolicy and community health using a variety of approaches. We offer both doctoral and master’s
degree courses in the field of International health/Global health sciences. Our program is offered
in English; that is, all of the academic procedures, including the entrance examination, class
lectures, and thesis writing, are given/conducted in English, and no proficiency in theJapanese language is required.

Web information: Please visit our website for updated information at:
http://www.sih.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/home-en/

Scholarship:
Asian Development Bank (ADB) offers a scholarship for the master students in our School. A coupleof students from Asian countries are supported by this scholarship every year. Selection for theawardee is independent of this entrance examination described in this leaflet, and relevant
information can be found at: http://www.sih.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/admission-en/

2. Departments, Academic Advisors, and their Research Fields;
Please refer to the attached “List of Research Supervisors.”

3. About the Entrance Examination:
Examination content:
Both the written and oral examinations will be conducted in English. Unless otherwise instructed,
you may answer either in English or in Japanese.
4. Additional application documents;”Motivation Letter”
Summarize your motivation for applying to the Master’s Program of International Health in
A4-sized paper(s) within 400-500 words in English (no specific format) without stapling. Add theheader (on the top left of each page), which indicates “Motivation Letter” along with your nameand page number.
”Research Plan”
Summarize your intended research plan in two A4 pages (no specific format) without stapling. Add
the header (on the top left of each page), which indicates ‘Research Plan’ along with your nameand the page number.

5. Other important notes
Applications submitted after the application period will not be accepted under any circumstances.
Therefore, please request any necessary school certificates etc. at the earliest possible date. If thecertificate/s are not issued in time, you must contact the Graduate Student Affairs Section inadvance (E-mail: in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

国際保健学専攻 修士
School of International Health, MA

6. Tips for Preparing the Application Form (Master’s Program)
Application Form (front side)- Field of your choice, Advisor of your choice
Check “List of Departments, Academic Advisors and their research field” before filling in thiscolumn.
- Name: Fill in your name in both フリガナ (in Japanese phonetic writing) and 英字氏名 (inEnglish). Regarding your name in English, write down your name in consistent with the name inyour passport.
- Curriculum Vitae: The CV should only contain details of university onwards (if you transferred touniversity from a junior college, etc. write the details of the college on the bottom line of the CV
section). Applicants who have completed studies in a foreign country should fill in the‘Educational background in foreign countries’ section.
- Employment history: If you cannot write your employment history in the space provided, write‘see attachment’ and attach an A4 page outlining your entire work history.
This section should only include details of full-time positions.
* Resident physician experience should be listed as ‘(residency)’, while part-time medical
personnel experience should be listed as ‘(part-time)’.
Application Form (back side)- Email: Please make sure that you provide your email address or mobile phone number so that
we can contact you in the event of any problems with your application documents.
- Emergency contact: If this is the same as the ‘Current address’ section, tick ( ) in the box beside‘Same as current address.’- Student ID/ Research student ID: This section should only be filled out by the University of Tokyo
students.

7. Inquiry
Regarding the Graduate School of Medicine’s entrance examination, contact:
Graduate Student Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
Email: in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Website: http://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html(Graduate school entrance exam information)

Academic Year 2025 Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Information on the April 2025 entrance examination for prospective applicants to the Master's
Program in School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University ofTokyo
Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Supplement to the Entrance Examination Guide
Application Guidelines for the Master's Program in School of International Health (AY2025)
The following information is a supplement to the Entrance Examination Guide for the 2025 Admission
Examination for the Master's Program in School of International Health, Graduate School of
Medicine, The University of Tokyo, which was released on May 9, 2024. Information related to theentrance examination will be posted on the website of the School of International Health as needed, solease be sure to consult that website ( https://www.m.utokyo.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html ) for the latest information.
Entrance examination schedule
Mid-July 2024: The examination card will be mailed
August 1, 2024: Examination instructions will be sent by email (If the email does not arrive by 5:00
pm on August 1, please contact the Graduate School Administrative Office at
in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
August 5, 2024, 12:00: The Written Examination (Specialized Subjects) will be sent by email
August 7, 2024, 12:00: Deadline for submission of answers to the Written Examination (Specialized
Subjects)
August 21, 2024: Online Oral Examination (Zoom)
September 6, 2024, 12:00: Successful applicants will be announced on the website of the Graduate
School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Examination subjects
The entrance examination comprises an online Written Examination (Specialized Subjects) and an
Online Oral Examination. No written exam will be administered for the "Foreign Languages"
section of the written examination. Please submit your TOEFL or IELTS transcripts by the due date,as indicated in the instructions included in the Entrance Examination Guide.
(1) Specialized subjects
The examination will be administered online. Questions for the Written Examination (Specialized
Subjects) will be distributed to the applicant's email address, as indicated on the application form,
by noon on Monday, August 5. Applicants must submit their answers by noon on Wednesday,
August 7. Instructions on how to submit answers will be provided when the examination questions
are distributed by email. All examination questions will be presented in English, and the answers
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can be written in English or Japanese. During the 48-hour test period, from August 5 to 7, do notdiscuss any questions related to the examination with anyone affiliated with the School ofInternational Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo (including current or
previous faculty or current or previous students). You may consult with anyone outside the Schoolof International Health but your answers must be written in your own words. Plagiarism will be
dealt with strictly. During the oral examination, the applicant’s level of understanding of theiranswers to the examination questions will be confirmed, if necessary.
The Written Examination (Specialized Subjects) consists of two questions for each field ofspecialization—one question that is basic and general and another that is highly specialized. The
examination on specialized subjects comprises four questions, as shown below.
1) Two questions from a field of specialization of your choice2) Two questions from a field outside your chosen field of specialization (optional)
The approximate scope of the examination in each specialty is indicated on the website of the
School of International Health (updated March 31, 2024), at

https://www.sih.m.u-

tokyo.ac.jp/admission/exam_coverage/.
List of specializations* Global Health Policy* Human Genetics* Developmental Medical Sciences* Human Ecology* Biomedical Chemistry* Global Environmental Health* International Cooperation for Medical Education(There will be no questions on Community and Global Health in 2025)(2) Oral examination
The interview will be conducted online using Zoom on Wednesday, August 21. The Zoom URL andinterview time will be sent in advance to the email address indicated on the application form.
If you have any questions, please contact the administrative office of the Graduate School of Medicineof the University of Tokyo, at in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp2

School of International Health

AY 2025
List of Research Supervisors
Before submitting application documents, each applicant must contact a faculty member and indicate
his/her desire for that faculty member to be his/her advisor in the Master’s program.
The faculty members who can serve as your advisor and their research areas are shown below. Faculty
members due to retire at the end of this fiscal year may not accept students.
The contents of the list may be updated. Please check the link below for the latest version.
https://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html(Names of the department are shown in bold characters)
Community and Global Health (in International Social Medicine)[Under the process of selection]
Global Health Policy (in International Social Medicine)Prof. Masahiro Hashizume: Climate change and health, environmental epidemiology, planetary healthDr. Chris Fook Sheng Ng: (Associate Professor): Environmental statistics and data science, air quality and health,population exposure-response modeling and risk assessment
Human Genetics (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Akihiro Fujimoto: Human genetics, population genetics, cancer genomics, human evolution
Dr. Motoko Unoki (Associate Professor): Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry: Molecular pathogenesis of diseases
with epigenetic changes, cross-disciplinary research to elucidate the mechanisms between epigenetics and DNA repair
systemDevelopmental Medical Sciences (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Moi Meng Ling: Tropical and emerging virus, immunology, epidemiology, field research, vaccine, diagnostics andtherapeutics development
Dr. Satoshi Taniguchi (Associate Professor): Research on diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of emerging and reemerging
infectious diseases. Development of animal models for infectious diseases
Human Ecology (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Masahiro Umezaki: The roles of gut microbiota in nutritional adaptation and the evolution of human populations,mitigation of the health impacts of aging and depopulation at community/national scales, behavioral and nutritional
adaptation of human populations in Asia and Oceania, medical anthropology
Dr. Shoko Konishi (Associate Professor): Health impact assessment of exposure to heavy metals, air pollution, unhealthyurban structures, and ecosystem degradation; Biological and behavioral explanations of low fertility and fecundity during
the post-demographic transition period
Biomedical Chemistry (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Tomoyoshi Nozaki: Biochemistry, molecular biology, molecular parasitology: metabolic control mechanisms, parasitic
phenomena, analysis of infection and adaptation, design and development of antiinfective drugs
Dr. Yoh-ichi Watanabe (Associate Professor): Analysis and application of RNA and RNA-binding proteins, analysis andapplication of extremophiles
Global Environmental Health (in International Social Medicine)
Dr.Yoonhee Kim (Associate Professor): Environmental health, population health, health risk assessment of climate change,
climate variability, and air pollution, climate informed infectious disease prediction modeling, seasonality of suicide
International Cooperation for Medical Education (International Cooperation for Medical Education)
Prod. Masahiro Umezaki (Chief of the School of International Health)Dr. Hirotaka Onishi (Lecturer): Medical education, health professional education, learner assessment, programmeevaluation, clinical education, clinical reasoning, international cooperation in health professional education＊Applicants who are willing to study at International Cooperation for Medical Education should contact Dr. Onishi.

Notice Regarding Foreign Language (English) Examinations for Entrance
to the Master’s Program※This is the entrance examination information for admission in April 2025.
Foreign language (English) written examination is not administered by the University of Tokyo to applicants for the
Master’s Program, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo. In lieu of those examinations, applicants
are required to submit an official report of their TOEFL or IELTS scores as below. As written in the NOTES,TOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted. Those who wish to be exempted from submitting scoresshould contact administrative staff via email as specified (in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

1. TOEFL score1.

Acceptable

TOEFL-iBT、TOEFL iBT® Home Edition

TOEFL Score
2.

Period of Validity

A TOEFL score will be valid only if the test was administered after August 1, 2022.

3.

Submission

Together with the other application documents, submit following documents:

Process (Step1):- A copy of the “Test Taker Score Report” that was sent to the examinee by ETS (Educational“Test Taker Score Testing Service).

4.

Report(Examinee- A screen copy of application result of “Institutional Score Report” that shows the application

Score Report)”

date for ETS

Submission

Please make a request to the ETS to forward an “Institutional Score Report” to “the University ofProcess (Step2):

Tokyo Faculty of Medicine” with the following information.

“Institutional

DI (Designated Institution) Code: 8426

Score Report”

Division: Graduate Organization
Department: 42(Medicine)-

When making the request, do not use “University of Tokyo” or another DI code for the othergraduate schools of The University of Tokyo.

-

The “Institutional Score Report” will be accepted even if it arrives after the application
deadline, as long as the request has been made prior to the application. If multiple“Institutional Score Report” arrive at the Graduate Students Affairs Section, the same scoreas the “Test Taker Score Report” will be accepted.

5.

Cautions

For details, please refer to the TOEFL website https://www.ets.org/jp/toefl/.

Please note that in the situations described below, reports of TOEFL scores will NOT be accepted.
In those situations, it will be assumed that the applicant has chosen not to take the foreign language(English) examination.
(1)

The “Institutional Score Report” from ETS is not received.

(2)

The scores and the dates of the examination on the copy of the “Test Taker Score Report”
are not identical with those on the “Institutional Score Report”.

(3)The official score is not from a test administered during the time period prescribed in #2
above (Period of Validity).

(4)

Scores are submitted by methods other than those described in #1 and #2 above, or scores
are submitted by illicit means.

2. IELTS score1.

Acceptable

IELTS

An acceptable score is a Test Report From on the IELTS (Academic Module) only. Test Report

Score

Form of IELTS (General Training Module) is NOT acceptable.

2.

Period of Validity

A IELTS score will be valid only if the test was administered after August 1, 2022.

3.

Submission Process

Together with the other application documents, submit a copy of the “Test Report Form” for(Step1): Copy of

the IELTS (Academic Module) that was forwarded to the examinee by the IELTS.

“Test Report Form”
4.

Submission Process

Please make a request to the IELTS office to forward an “Test Report Form” to the following(Step1):address.

Original“Test

Graduate Student Affairs Section,

Report Form”

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan-

The “Test Report Form” forwarded from the IELTS office will be accepted even if it
arrives after the application deadline, as long as the request has been made prior to theapplication.

If multiple “Test Report Form” arrive at the Graduate Students Affairs

Section from the IELTS, the same score as the “Test Report Form” submitted by examinee
will be accepted.
5.

Cautions

For details, please refer to the IELTS website http://www.eiken.or.jp/ielts/.

Please note that in the situations described below, reports of IELTS scores will NOT be
accepted. In those situations, it will be assumed that the applicant has chosen not to take theforeign language (English) examination.
(1)

The “Test Report Form” from the IELTS office is not received.

(2)

The scores and the dates of the examination on the copy of the “Test Report Form” arenot identical with those on the original “Test Report Form”.

(3)

The “Test Report Form” is not from a test administered during the time period prescribedin #2 above (Period of Validity).

(4)

Scores are submitted by methods other than those described in #1 and #2 above, or scores
are submitted by illicit means.

3. NOTESTOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted if any of the following (1) or (2) apply.
(1) An applicant who earned or is expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, or the international equivalent thereof,
from an institution, where the primary language of the entire institution (not only the applicant’s department
or program) is English, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K. or the U.S.A.
(2) An applicant who earned or is expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, or the international equivalent
thereof, from an institution, where the primary language of the entire institution (not only the applicant’s
department or program) is English in countries other than Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, theU.K. or the U.S.A. If an applicant falls into this category, he/she is required to send a certificate of
medium of instruction issued by the institution by mail.
※ Both (1) and (2) are limited to bachelor’s program only. NOT apply to master's and doctoral programs.
※ Those who wish to be exempted from submitting scores should contact administrative staff (email:in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by the end of May 2024.

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