PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Geography in Japan

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology is recruiting a full-time Research Administrator (URA) for its Marine Research Strategy Management Organization in Tokyo, Japan. This is a research-support and research-management position rather than a student opening. The role focuses on strengthening the university’s marine science and technology research ecosystem, from basic research to social implementation. The successful candidate will support project planning and launch, grant/applicatio...

Okinawa National College of Technology is recruiting a researcher / postdoctoral-equivalent fixed-term position for the NARO BRAIN project “Development and Supply of Smart Agriculture Technologies.” The work is based in Okinawa, Japan , and focuses on smart agriculture , soil management , agricultural environmental engineering , agricultural information engineering , soil science , plant nutrition , crop production science , environmental agriculture , and horticultural science . The successful ...

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...

Fixed-term Researcher opening at the National Institute of Public Health, Japan This recruitment is for a researcher/postdoctoral-equivalent fixed-term position in the Architecture and Facility Management Research Department at the National Institute of Public Health in Saitama Prefecture, Japan . The role focuses on research and studies on the indoor environment of buildings , especially humidity , thermal comfort , and related health effects , together with associated training activities. This...

Open call for a Researcher / postdoctoral-equivalent fixed-term position in the ECOIP Project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan. The project, Toward an Ethical Economy: Addressing the Impacts of Commodity Trade and Consumption on Indigenous Lands and Survival , examines how global commodity production, trade, and consumption affect indigenous peoples, territories, livelihoods, rights, and lifestyles. The successful candidate will focus on remote sensing , GIS , ge...

Fukushima International Research and Education Organization (F-REI) is recruiting a postdoctoral-equivalent researcher for the Regional Environmental Co-creation Unit in Fukushima, Japan. The position focuses on environmental science , radioactive materials , nuclear disaster recovery , and related modeling of environmental dynamics in forests, rivers, and lakes. Research themes include developing and improving high-precision future prediction models, accelerating models with AI and machine lear...

Open call for Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow positions in the ECOIP Project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (National Institutes for the Humanities), Kyoto, Japan. The project, Toward an Ethical Economy: Addressing the Impacts of Commodity Trade and Consumption on Indigenous Lands and Survival , examines how global commodity production, trade, and consumption affect indigenous peoples, their territories, livelihoods, rights, and lifestyles. The research combines globa...

Two postdoctoral researcher positions are available for the ECOIP project, Towards an Ethical Economy: Addressing the Impacts of Commodity Trade and Consumption on Indigenous Land and Survival , at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. The project examines how global commodity production, trade, and consumption affect Indigenous Peoples, their territories, livelihoods, rights, and ways of life. The research sits at the intersection of political economy , environmental justice , and bro...

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...