Kikokusei Nyushi: Into a Japanese Degree on Your Overseas High School Record
A special-admission track for people who finished high school overseas and come (back) to a Japanese undergraduate degree. Instead of the general 共通テスト, it first asks whether you hold Japan's legal university-entrance qualification, then sorts you by status: Japanese nationals and permanent residents usually go via 帰国生入試 / 外国学校出身者選抜, while foreign nationals without permanent residence typically take 私費外国人留学生入試 (often adding EJU). The flow is generally document screening → 小論文 / subject test + interview — humanities lean on 小論文, while science/medical paths add subject interviews. What actually trips people up isn't whether you studied abroad, but the fine print: years of continuous overseas enrollment, recent-graduation time windows, and official direct-sending of English scores. You land in a Japanese-taught degree; if you want an English-taught program, that's a separate 総合型選抜.
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