Register Your Interest
Enquire about sending your child to Japan
This scholarship is fully funded by MITSUI RESOURCES PTY LTD exclusively for children of permanent employee’s of Mitsui’s joint venture mines. The winning student will spend 4 weeks in Japan learning Japanese language & culture and living with a Japanese family.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON THE 8TH OF MAY 2024
Zoom Session with Q&A
Zoom information session recording of information session covering:
- How AFS works to go on an exchange for a intensive programme
- What is covered by the scholarship
- Past returnees will attend and answer questions on their experience
- Q&A from you and your parent
Scholarship Value and What's Included
(Scholarship value: $12,500)
- All domestic and international flights and transfers
- Host family placement – homestay with all meals included during 4 week stay
- 80 hours of Japanese language classes in Japan
- Pre-departure, on arrival and at end of stay Orientation
- 24/7 support from AFS Japan and AFS New Zealand
- Comprehensive medical insurance
Are you Eligible?
- Aged between 15.6 and 18.6 years old at the start of the program
- Studying in Year 9, 10 or 11
- Currently studying Japanese, have previously studied Japanese or willing to start studying Japanese prior to the start of the program. AFS will provide free online resources to the students.
- Have an interest in the Japanese culture and language
- Be in good physical and mental health
- Capable of adjusting to new experiences and environments, and open to adjusting to cultural difference.
- Willing to provide program updates to the sponsor throughout the program.
- Family member of the permanent employees who work for MITSUI RESOURCES PTY LTD joint venture mines: Dawson, Kestrel and Capcoal mines.
About Japan
Japan is the most popular destination for Australian school students to go abroad due to a long history of programs between the two countries. Each year AFS Intercultural Programs sends students from all around Oceania to Japan to experience the Japanese culture and its people, learn the language, and to live with a carefully selected host family to fully immerse themselves in the Japanese way of life.
The AFS Japanese Intensive Language Program sees students from around the world undertake a 4 week program to Japan in Oct 2024 to improve their Japanese language skills and learn about the Japanese culture first-hand by living with a Japanese family.
This program can be a life changing and eye opening experience, and will open students up to not only a new culture, but will help forge life-long connections and friendships. Living and studying abroad will prepare you for life in ways that no other experience can – you will learn more, gain more and grow more than you thought possible.