PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Journalism 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...

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...

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...