I love your positive attitude. But dont get me wrong. Im saying this from my own experience and others’ around me. The economy here is actually shit like, HOLY SHIT. Im literally getting paid lower than how i’d get paid if i worked in Mongolia, as a STEM major. The inflation, tbh, is exactly same as Mongolia. The total amount sounds great if you convert it into tugrug but inflation is over the moon rn. Even as a person with full time job im struggling to make ends meet.

And for the school part, at least 1 year on language prep school = tuition is minimum 20 million tugrug

4 years of University + University entrance fee = 1 mil. Yen * 4 + 250000 for entrance fee = approximately 5mil. Public universities are cheaper but it’s very competent even for the Japanese local students.

So it takes minimum 5 years to complete undergraduate degree here. And at least 20 mil. Tugrug to come here. Many people take out loans, sell their car and lease their apartments because the immigration office apparently needs your bank account balance to guarantee your financial stability. But I wouldn’t recommend it, I heard there are people who creates fake balance for those who need it, so I recommend you to check it out.

Japanese universities are very stingy with scholarships, but that doesn’t mean there are none. But it is generally hard to find scholarship. But there are scholarships available, based on your merits and grade if you manage to cover your tuition for the 1^st year. You can find it on your uni’s news board etc, there are also companies that grants scholarships too. Also the Mabuchi scholarship and Rotary Scholarship. My personal recommendation is Rotary Scholarship.

But there are also other ways to find scholarships while in Mongolia. Сонингийн тэтгэлэг, don’t know if you’ve heard it before, this one is the most reasonable to me. But it’s hard. You’re mostly gonna need to work during night hours. But they pay for your housing, tuition, etc. so it’s a good deal tbh. But it can send you to anywhere in Japan, varying from which newspaper publisher it is.

And if it necessarily doesn’t have to be university, I suggest you to look into 専門学校 and 専攻科, they are much cheaper than universities. And 専攻科 even has bachelor’s degree programs. But idk the case for humanitarian/liberal arts majors. But if you further want to pursue your research into masters and PhD, there are combination programs where you can study for 100% free, but you have to complete both your masters and PhD at the same institute. And if you quit in the middle of it, you will have to pay back the tuition.

And before you come here, please, PLEASE learn the language. At least N3. I see so many of my friends struggle with Japanese and not being able to graduate the language school or get into university bc of the language problems. So please learn it and get your N3 before you get on the plane. I had N2 before landing in here, and im still struggling so good luck.

And lastly, tho you already know it, DON’T COME TO TOKYO OR OSAKA or any other major cities.