AY 2025
Entrance Examination Guideline for theApplication Guidefor Master’s Program of Health Sciences andNursing

Application Information
Points to Note when Preparing the Admission Application Form
List of Supervisors
Regarding Foreign Language Examination
Past Exam

Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo

Academic Year 2025
Entrance examination Guideline for Master's Programof Health Sciences and Nursing,
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 bothdocuments. While this leaflet provides information specifically pertaining to the School of Health
Sciences and Nursing, the Application Guide covers issues applicable to all of the Master’s programsin the Graduate School of Medicine.

1. Department
Advanced Clinical Nursing

Nursing Administration

Gerontological, Home Care, and Long-term Care Nursing (GHLN)

Palliative Care Nursing

Community Health Nursing/Public Health Nursing

Public Health Nursing

Family Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing

Gerontological Nursing

Wound Care Management

Midwifery and Women's HealthRadiation Health Sciences
No applications accepted this year.

Notes:(1) Programs in Public Health Nursing / Midwifery have been provided since the 2014 academic year.
Programs in Public Health Nursing / Midwifery are open to only those who have a Japanese nurses’license. For details, see the Japanese version of the ‘Admissions Information’ document.
(2) Before submitting any application, anyone planning to apply must discuss their plans with faculty member(a professor or an associate professor) in the Department to which that person plans to apply (see 3. “Listof Research Supervisors” below).

2. Application(1) All applications must be sent in a manner specified in the Application Guide. In applying, following
documents are necessary as additional documents for School of Health Sciences and Nursing.
DocumentA

Who should submit

Description

Personal

Use the provided format. The maximum length is 700 English

essay

words or 1,600 Japanese characters. (Citation list is not counted.)
Discuss your motivations for applying to our program andAll applicants

describe your proficiencies, skills, and knowledge related to Health
Sciences/Nursing.
You are free to discuss any relevant achievements, including testscores and pertinent activities.
Submit both paper medium and electronic file.

Electronic file format must be MS Word or other Text-basedformat. PDF is not accepted.
Plagiarism checks will be conducted, so please be sure to cite
the source of any references you cite, as well as the source of yourown published papers.
<Upload link>
https://x.gd/f9Fen<File title> “SHSN_Personal_essay_(your fullname)”
B

Declaration

Please sign and submit the provided format.

ofSubmit both the original and the image data taken with aauthenticity

All applicants

smartphone.
<Upload link>
https://x.gd/f9Fen<File title> “SHSN_Declaration_(your full name)”

C Statement

Required only forof Reasonsapplicants to thefor Desired

Program(s) inCourse

Public Health(See the ’Entrance Examination Information’ Japanese version.)

Nursing / Midwifery
D Certificate

Non-Japanese

The certificate must be issued by a Japanese-language instructor orof Japanese applicants only

equivalent person who is able to objectively assess your Japanese

language(not required for

language ability.

abilitythose who have

Alternatively, a certificate issued by a Japanese language school is

graduated or are

also acceptable.

expected toNon-Japanese students who have taken the 'graduate from a(Japanese Language Examination) may instead submit a copy ofJapanese

their test certificate.

university)

3. List of Research Supervisors-

Please refer to the attached list.

'Points to Note when Preparing the Application Form
(Master’s Program of Health Sciences and Nursing)
SectionField of your choice
Professor of yourchoice

Examples, points to note etc.
Check the document 'List of Research Supervisors' before filling inthis column.
Fill in your name in bothNameand(in Japanese phonetic writing)(in English). Regarding your name in English, write

down your name in accord with name in your passport.
Application

The CV should not contain pre-university details (if you transferred toFormuniversity from a junior college, etc. write the details of the college on(front)

Curriculum Vitae

the bottom line of the CV section).
Applicants who have completed studies outside Japan should fill in
the 'Formal education outside Japan' section.
If you cannot write your employment history in the space provided,

Employment history

write 'see attachment' and attach an A4 page outlining your entire
work history.
This section should include details of full-time positions only.
Please make sure that you provide your email address or mobile

Emailproblems with your application documents.

Application
Form(back)phone number so that we can contact you in the event of any

Emergency contact
Student ID/
Researcher ID

If this is the same as the 'Current address', place a tick ( ) in the box
beside 'Same as current address'.
This section should only be filled out by University of Tokyo students.

Other important information
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).
Details of entrance examination schedule will be provided in the 'Examinee Notes' after application.

AY 2025 List of Research Supervisors
Department and faculty(1) Students will be instructed by a faculty member (a professor or an associate professor) of theDepartment into which they are accepted.
(2) Persons planning to apply must contact that faculty member before applying.
(3) The names and research areas of possible supervisors each major field of study are shown below.
Faculty members due to retire at the end of this academic year may not be available to teach.
Department

Faculty

Research Fields

Nursing
Administration

Professor

Mari Ikeda(concurrent)

Advanced ClinicalNursing

Professor

Mari Ikeda(concurrent)

Gerontological,Home Care, andLong-term Care
Nursing (GHLN)

Professor

NorikoGerontological nursing (homecare, longYamamoto-Mitani term care), quality assurance of long-term

AssociateProfessor

Ayumi Igarashi

Professor

NorikoYamamoto-Mitani(concurrent)
End-of-life care of older persons, practice-

Palliative Care
Nursing
Community HealthNursing/PublicHealth Nursing
Public HealthNursing

Family Nursing

Nursing administration, Nursing Quality
Assessment and Policy Evaluation
Function and roles of nursing, expertise innursing skills

care/homecare, dementia-friendly
community, community care systemdevelopment

based nursing knowledge development

Associate
Professor

Ayumi Igarashi(concurrent)

Associate
Professor

Community health nursing/Public health
Kyoko Yoshioka- nursing, community healthcare system
Maeda
development, policy/program development,
tacit knowledge of public health nurses

Professor

Mari Ikeda

Associate
Professor

Yuki Miyamoto

Professor

Daisuke Nishi(concurrent)

Family nursing /child nursing in general,development of family assessment andfamily nursing-style approach, mental healthduring family formation, family QOL,
transitional support for patients withchildhood-onset chronic diseases,
prevention of abuse, and gender andnursing
Psychiatric nursing, home-visit nursing,social rehabilitation, recovery, co-production

Affiliation(Department)
Preventive andAdministrative
NursingPreventive andAdministrative
Nursing
Clinical Nursing

Clinical Nursing

Preventive andAdministrative
NursingPreventive andAdministrative
Nursing

Clinical Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing
GerontologicalNursing

Professor

Wound CareManagement

Professor

Midwifery and
Women's Health
Radiation Health
Sciences

Professor

Mental health epidemiology, perinatal
School of Public
mental health, traumatic stress, resilience
HealthGerontological nursing, nursing skills
Gojiro Nakagami
specific to the older population (malnutrition,deglutition disorders, incontinence), wound Clinical Nursing
Gojiro Nakagami
care management (pressure ulcer, lower(concurrent)
extremity ulcer)
Life and health during pregnancy and thepuerperium, improvement of care at delivery
Megumi Haruna
based on physiological rationale, healthissues concerning women’s life cycles

Clinical Nursing

No applications accepted this year.

As of 2024 May
The contents may be updated. Please refer to our website http://www.m.utokyo.ac.jp/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html for the latest version.

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TOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted if any of the following (1) or (2) apply.
(1) Anor program) is English, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K. or the U.S.A.
(2)
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 ofmedium of instruction issued by the institution by mail.

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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