Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Unspecified

Wages

• Professor level

  Annual Salary : 9 million yen ~ 13 million yen

  First year: 9,240,000 yen (general example)
  Subsequent years: Amounts may vary depending on performance evaluations.
  Minimum: 9,140,000 yen Average: 10,280,000 yen Maximum: 12,410,000 yen

• Associate Professor

  Annual Salary : 7 million yen ~ 11 million yen

  First year: 7,740,000 yen (general example)
  Subsequent years: Amounts may vary depending on performance evaluations.
  Minimum: 7,790,000 yen Average: 8,640,000 yen Maximum: 10,270,000 yen

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

  Applicants should have a PhD in the field of comparative culture, comparative literature or intercultural communication, or have equivalent academic abilities.

• Description

  1) Applicants should be native speakers of English, or have an equivalent command of English.
  2) It is desirable that applicants should have sufficient command of Japanese for the purposes of daily administrative tasks.
  

Employment Type

• Professor level

  Regular employee

• Associate Professor

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Professor level

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period present

  Trial period: 6 months

• Associate Professor

  Nontenured - Tenure-track

  Fixed-term appointments will be for 5 years. Reappointment may be possible for one additional term of 5 years. The total term is limited to a maximum of 10 years from the original date of employment. The Institute of Science Tokyo has a tenure-track system, and a fixed-term Associate Professor may gain the opportunity to qualify for a tenured position.

  Probationary period present

  Trial period: 6 months

Work location

• 152-8550 Tokyo 2-12-1 Oookayama, Meguro-ku Institute of Science Tokyo

Compensation

• Various systems

  Pay increase system : available

  Bonus : available

  Retirement allowances : available

  Transportation expenses : available

  Retirement age : available

  Others : The salary will be paid under the Annual Salary System

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

• Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace

  Smoking is prohibited on campus (excluding designated outdoor smoking areas).

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  The salary will be paid under the “Annual Salary System with Lump-Sum Retirement Allowance Rules”. In accordance with the rules, the amount of annual salary will be determined based on the candidate’s highest degree obtained, work experience, and other factors for the first fiscal year of employment, and will be based on performance evaluations in subsequent years. A retirement allowance will be paid separately at the time of retirement.

Application Considerations

• Considerations for conducting interviews (e.g., those who live far away, such as overseas)

  Online interviews will be arranged for oversea applicants.

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2026/04/01

Starting date : 2026/04/01

Application period

• 2025/08/20~2025/09/28 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • designated_CV_format.docx
  • 2025-ILA-application-data-e.xlsx

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  Download the designated CV form from this page. Curriculum vitae should include professional and educational history from high school onward, honors and awards, criminal history and disciplinary actions, and email address.
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  Please use the JREC-IN page for generating the list of publications. Indicate clearly whether papers are peer-reviewed or not, and whether books are single-authored or co-authored. Acquired research grants and external funds should be mentioned.

  Other online application forms
  1) Curriculum vitae (mentioned above)
  2) Summary of past research and teaching activities (mentioned above)
  3) Explanation of achievements in research and education (approximately 600 words each).
  4) Future plans for research and education if employed at Institute of Science Tokyo (approximately 1000 words each).
  5) Three examples of graduate students’ research topics you could supervise.
  6) Up to three reprints or copies of major publications (For books, submit a copy of the cover, colophon and table of contents, and a one-page summary of the contents on A4 paper)
  7) Names, affiliations, and contact details for two reference writers (If hired at the rank of Professor, we will ask for two more reference writers).
  8) Excel sheet* with necessary information filled in. *Download the file (2025-ILA-application-data-e.xlsx) from this page.
  The required documents must be submitted through the JREC-IN Portal Site. Create a compressed ZIP file in which you have saved Documents 1 to 7 as PDF files and Document 8 as an Excel file. You must put your name into the title of each file. Upload the compressed ZIP file from this page.

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

• * Out of application period.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  After screening of documents, selected applicants will be asked to have an interview and give a demo lecture.

• Notification of result

  The selection committee will send you the result by email.

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