"The Japanese-German Graduate Externship" is a program established to promote exchange among universities in Japan and Germany by supporting the reciprocal student enrollment in graduate courses in the two countries and collaborative instruction.

"The Japanese-German Graduate Externship" is operated in conjunction with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)’s "International Research Training Groups (IRTG)"; however, the contents of the two programs differ to some extent. For information on IRTG, please refer to the following URL:

http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/coordinated_programmes/research_training_groups/international_rtg/index.html