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Ughh...Thanks! Of course I could just type in the document downloaded from the website!! Just about to send it off to JUSEC. Thanks!

@kyjin@hojoojoh Dear Japan Fulbrighters, I finished filling out all of the required IIE documents and send them before the deadline last week. However, I have a couple of questions about the Biodata sheet that JUSEC sent us. How did you scan them and then convert them to a .docx file? I had a feeling that Japan would want us to submit something to see our handwriting and photo... Also, are you wearing a suit in your photo and not smiling? I just submitted a copy of my passport photo in which I am smiling and wearing a T-shirt :/ Sorry for a strange question, but I have the computer skills and knowhow of an arthritic bed-and-breakfast owner in her 60s.

Dear hojoojoh, You'll be in Kobe? Awesome! I noticed that you are coming from Montreal. Do you attend McGill? I research Edo period visual culture. The last chapter of my dissertation is looking at woodblock printed books and the construction of race in the late Edo, early Meiji years, so there might be some overlap with our research there. There are lots of interesting books about the treaty port states that few people have touched in the secondary literature. I am slightly obsessed with one book that narrates Napoleon's upbringing, which includes him slaying a giant whale/alligator? thing (鰐鮫）hahaa. I lived in Kyoto as an undergraduate for a semester, and then did research at Tsukuba University in Ibaraki between my MA and PhD. The dorms at Tsukuba were horrendous. I had a sink in my room, had to pay 100 yen everyday for the student bathhouse - it was not good. BUT it was sooooo cheap. I think the rent was about $300? With regards to the JLPT, I passed N1 in 2013. I am planning on going to a conference in Kobe, which I think might be in October or November, so we should keep in touch. I said I would leave in mid-August, so I will be there a little ahead of you. Best of luck finishing your thesis and defending! I'm trying to finish my proposal and get a draft of one of my chapters before I go. Having gotten the Fulbright really puts some more gas in the engine. Must. Not. Disappoint!

I attempted to respond directly to your post, but no energy for that Awesome! I will be at the National Institute of Japanese Literature （国文学研究資料館) in Tachikawa. Although, I'm planning on living maybe in Kōenji or somewhere else along the Chūōsen. I'm not sure if I want to live in a share-house or try and get an apartment. I like the idea of living in a crummy, old tatami apartment, but it seems like such an involved process to try and rent an apartment..

Congratulations! I just got the Fulbright for Japan as well!!! We should talk - are you doing research in Tokyo?

Hello all. I am curious if anyone else has applied to the SSRC / JSPS Fellowship. I was offered a nomination, which I accepted, but do not really know what this means. The coordinator sent back an email thanking me for accepting the award. It seems like the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) has to okay everything, but I have a slight worry that nomination by the SSRC does not guarantee the offer of the fellowship by the JSPS. Has anyone else received similar language regarding nomination? Or, has anyone else received the SSRC/JSPS award before?