We (UEC Tokyo) can supervise your master's thesis in English. If you are interested in our laboratory's theme and want to be a grad student of UEC Tokyo, please contact me. Otherwise, you can search appropriate laboratories from UEC research information.
If you pass a postgraduate exam and becomes a grad student, you can apply several supports for international students (See here). Unfortunately, the links are written in Japanese. Please be careful about the application period.
If you want to write your master's thesis in Japanese, you have to have enough reading/writing skills to understand this web page. In some cases, you need to have ability greater than that of the person who passed N1 level of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) . Otherwise, we recommend you to write your master's thesis in English.
If you want to join international internships of Japanese universities without having done much local research, often, you need to provide travel expenses by yourselves. To avoid such the situation, please survey Japan youth exchange programs to get funds. For example, Sakura Science for Asia regions. Japan government has several funds supporting you (See here). Unfortunately, the links are written in Japanese. Please be careful about the application period. Basically, it is difficult for Japanese laboratories to provide travel expenses rapidly due to the funding rules.
We receive several application e-mails about research students (Finally, he or she hopes that we welcome them as a postgraduate). In Japan, research students are not treated as grad students and have more difficulty to get funds than grad students and you need to find some supports for living expenses by yourselves. We recommend you to pass a postgraduate exam instead of becoming a research student.