PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Film Studies in Japan

Tokyo University of Science is recruiting a researcher / postdoctoral equivalent for the Sasahara Laboratory in the School of Environment and Society, located at the Tamachi Campus in Tokyo, Japan. This opening is part of the K Program Development of Technologies Related to Disinformation Analysis and focuses on research related to information dissemination , misinformation/disinformation analysis , and computational social science . The group analyzes large-scale social media data, especially X...

RIKEN’s Brain Science Institute / Mathematical Neuroscience Research Team is recruiting a Researcher or Postdoctoral Fellow for work in computational neuroscience , theoretical neuroscience , mathematical models , neural networks , learning theory , and brain science . The position is based at the RIKEN Wako Campus, Saitama Prefecture, Japan , and is part of the CREST BioDX project “Elucidating Sleep Brain Function Driven by Multi-Layered Neural Activity Data” . The successful candidate will col...

RIKEN’s Research Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Japan is recruiting a Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow for the Complex Climate Science Research Team . The position focuses on weather and climate modeling , computational science , high-performance computing (HPC) , GPU computing , and generative AI for scientific software development. The project aims to build a new specification-driven research and development platform for scientific and technical computing. The work includes designin...

Public recruitment for a fixed-term researcher at the Health and Medical Information Policy Research Center , National Institute of Public Health, Japan. This is a full-time, fixed-term researcher/postdoctoral equivalent position focused on health and medical information , public health , and medical informatics . Duties include research and training activities related to health and medical information, as well as operation of the institutional repository system and other center activities. Elig...

Recruitment of a fixed-term Research Fellow / Senior Research Officer at the Disaster Prevention and Public Health Resilience Research Center , National Institute of Public Health (Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan). This is a postdoctoral-equivalent full-time research position focused on public health , disaster prevention , health crises , medical sociology , and health informatics . The role includes public health activities and administrative support related to large-scale disasters and h...

Finex Co., Ltd. is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher / Senior Data Analysis Researcher for its Core Technology Lab in Tokyo, Japan. The role focuses on medical AI , machine learning , biomedical data analysis , neuroscience , and ophthalmology , with research using biometric data such as eye movement, visual field testing, and retinal sensitivity maps. The position is designed for someone who can work across the full pipeline: hypothesis generation, analysis strategy design, model constructio...

Ritsumeikan University is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher / specialist researcher for the Center for Play Creation Research in Kyoto, Japan. The position is part of the Game Creation and Inheritance Project (GCCP) , an industry-government-academia collaborative initiative supported by the Japan Creator Support Fund and the Agency for Cultural Affairs through the Japan Arts Council. The role is centered on game informatics , entertainment , and practical arts , with responsibilities that inc...

University of Tokyo’s Center for Spatial Information Science is recruiting Project Assistant Professors and Project Research Fellows for a fixed-term, part-time position in Civic Tech Design Studies within the university-wide Digital Space Social Collaboration Research Organization. The post is based at the Sekimoto Laboratory and focuses on research and development , hands-on training program design for talent development, and community building . The advertised research areas include urban pla...

Finex Co., Ltd. is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher / Data Analysis Researcher for its Core Technology Lab in Tokyo, Japan. The role focuses on medical AI , machine learning , and biomedical data analysis using biometric data such as eye movement, visual field testing, and retinal sensitivity maps. The work spans hypothesis generation, analysis strategy design, model construction, PoC development, and product implementation. The company emphasizes challenges specific to medical device develo...