Professor / Associate Professor, Japanese Language Education (Secondary Education)

Researcher Profile: Leading Researcher (R4); Established Researcher (R3)

Application Deadline: 28 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (UTC)

Country: Japan

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Status: Not Applicable

Hours Per Week: See description

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?: Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Offer Description

[Background of the recruitment and description of the project]
Hiroshima University (HU) herewith makes an open international job offer and seeks to appoint Professor with tenure; Associate Professor with tenure; Associate Professor on Tenure Track System in the research area of Japanese Language Education (Secondary Education).

[Work content and job description]

1. Planned responsibilities
(Immediately after hiring)

1. Duties related to research in “2. Field of specialization”.
2. Duties related to teaching the scheduled courses and supervising graduate and undergraduate students under “3. Teaching responsibilities”.
3. Duties related to the administration and management of the entire university, graduate schools, faculties, centers, etc. (participation in various meetings, activities as a member of various committees, etc.).
4. Duties related to student admissions (exam supervision, question creation, grading, interviewers, etc.).
5. Other duties as directed by the head of the educational and research organization.

(Scope of changes)
Tasks determined by the university.

2. Field of specialization
Japanese Language Education (Secondary Education)

3. Teaching responsibilities
The following courses are scheduled to be taught.:

1. Undergraduate level (general education courses): Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students, etc.
2. Undergraduate level (discipline specific courses): Fundamental Seminar of Japanese Language Culture, General lesson of Japanese language education II, Seminar of Studies on Teaching Materials for Japanese Language Education for Natives, History of Japanese Language Education for Natives, Methodologies for Studying Japanese Language Culture II, Graduation Thesis Seminar, Graduation Thesis, Introduction of Teaching Practice for Lower and Upper Secondary Schools etc.
3. Graduate level (master’s programs): Special Study in Japanese Language and Culture Education B, Basic Study in Instruction and Evaluation Method Design, Advanced Study in Instruction and Evaluation Method Design, etc.
4. Graduate level (doctoral programs): Special Study, etc. < All in Japanese >

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* Assigned department
Existing departments

[Work location]
* Address
739-8524 Hiroshima 1-1-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima City
Other places of work designated by the University

[Number of hired]
Number of hired: 1 person(s)
Number of hired description: Depending on the result of the performance reviews of the applicant at the time of employment, he/she may be decided on any of the following titles: Professor with tenure; Associate Professor with tenure; Associate Professor on Tenure Track System
Hiring date: 2027-04-01 00:00:00
Starting date: 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Where to apply

Website: https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&ln=1&id=D126081535&ln_jor=1

Requirements

Additional Information

Benefits

[Compensation]
* Leading Researcher (R4)
Annual salary: 7 million yen
Wages description: (1) The annual salary system (II) which was enforced in October 2021 will be applied to the successful candidates.
* The approximate annual salary is based on a standard career history and may vary depending on education, degree, work experience, etc.
(2) Successful candidates may be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred for the trip from their home or former place of work to the new place of work to assume their post in accordance with the relevant regulations of Hiroshima University. For more information, please contact us.

Hiroshima University has introduced a system whereby researchers' personnel expenses are paid out of direct expenses such as competitive research grants and joint research grants, and the obtained research financial resources can be used to improve the treatment of researchers themselves (additional Salary) and to improve the research environment.
Working hours: 08:30-17:00
Break time: 12:00-12:45
Holidays: Holidays are Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays in principle.
Overtime and other explanations: If you are agreeable to the application of the Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work, you are deemed to work for 7 hours and 45 minutes a day.
Employment type: Regular employee
Contract period: Tenured
Probationary period: Probationary period present
Probationary period description: Probationary employment period: six (6) months

* Established Researcher (R3)
Annual salary: 6 million yen
Wages description: (1) The annual salary system (II) which was enforced in October 2021 will be applied to the successful candidates.
* The approximate annual salary is based on a standard career history and may vary depending on education, degree, work experience, etc.
(2) Successful candidates may be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred for the trip from their home or former place of work to the new place of work to assume their post in accordance with the relevant regulations of Hiroshima University. For more information, please contact us.

Hiroshima University has introduced a system whereby researchers' personnel expenses are paid out of direct expenses such as competitive research grants and joint research grants, and the obtained research financial resources can be used to improve the treatment of researchers themselves (additional Salary) and to improve the research environment.
Working hours: 08:30-17:00
Break time: 12:00-12:45
Holidays: Holidays are Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays in principle.
Overtime and other explanations: If you are agreeable to the application of the Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work, you are deemed to work for 7 hours and 45 minutes a day.
Employment type: Regular employee
Contract period: Nontenured-Tenure-track
Contract period description: Tenure-track position(s) Period of employment
7 years (in case that tenure-track Associate Professor gets promoted to tenured Associate Professor)
(1) Tenure-track faculty members will undergo a tenure review at least six (6) months or more in advance of the expiration date of appointment, and those who have successfully passed the review process will be granted tenure along with promotion either to associate professor.
(2) Granting a candidate for tenure is subject to two reviewing process: an intermediate and final review. If a candidate is not granted tenure in final review, he/she will be dismissed from the university upon completion of the term of appointment.
(3) If a candidate has taken a leave because of some life events such as delivering a baby, child-raising and caregiving, he/she may extend the term of appointment up to certain period according to the length of such leave.
Probationary period: Probationary period present
Probationary period description: Probationary employment period: six (6) months

[Various systems]

[Insurance]

[Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace]
Hiroshima University has been entirely smoke-free from January 2020.

[Supplementary explanation of compensation]
Evaluation:
We conduct individual performance evaluations for all Hiroshima University faculty members after their employment, numerically rate their performance, and salary and benefits are commensurate with performance indicators.

Additional comments

(1) The retirement age is 65 years old.
(2) All the faculty members of Hiroshima University belong to the “Academy”, which is the single university-wide faculty organization, and each faculty as a member of the Academy of the University is appointed to educational and/or research organizations such as an individual undergraduate school, graduate school, research center and institute.
(3) Faculty members may also be assigned to teaching and/or research activities in other organizations of Hiroshima University and university-wide projects.
(4) For each specialized field of faculty, Hiroshima University has defined Minimum standards for hiring new faculty (“the minimum standards”). We use the minimum standards for the initial screening process of the applicants, and only those who have cleared the minimum standards will qualify as the candidates for the post concerned. The minimum standards used for this international job offer can be viewed by URL of the Job posting.

Work Location(s)

• Number of offers available: 1
• Company/Institute: Hiroshima University
• Country: Japan
• City: Hiroshima