Students
International Community
Including both MA and PhD programs there are at present over 25 students enrolled in the Media Professional Course. Of these, approximately half are international students. The majority of our international students come from China, Korea and Taiwan but we have also had students from Malaysia and Brazil. We have also welcomed visiting research students from a number of countries including Indonesia and Australia.
Graduate Employment
Organizations with which Media Professional Course students have found employment in recent years include the following:
- Aishin Seiki
- Asahi Beer
- Brother Industries
- Chunichi Shimbun
- Daihatsu
- Dentsu
- Fujitsu
- Hochi Shimbun
- IBM Japan
- Internet Initiative Japan
- Japan Housing Finance Agency
- Japan Sports Association
- Mainichi Shimbun
- NHK
- NHK PlanNet
- Nikkei Shimbun
- Nintendo
- NTT West
- Pia Corporation
- Tokaigakuen University
- Toshiba
- Toyota Tourism
- Yomiko Advertising
Note that despite the challenges faced by international students in obtaining employment in Japanese media-related organizations, international students from the Media Professional Course have been employed by some of the above organizations, particularly in cases where those organizations are seeking to develop their overseas operations in the students’ home countries. In addition, many of them have found media-related employment in their home countries with organizations not listed here or have set up their own media-related businesses.