Membership

I. Types of Membership

i. Regular Members
  1. Bachelor's or higher degree of education is required.
  2. A minimum 2 years of experience in relevant sphere is required.
ii. Subscribing Members of the English Issues
  1. Fulfilling the same requirements as for regular members is required.
  2. Living abroad is required.

II. Procedures for obtaining full membership and for withdrawing from the Association

How to apply for admission

(1) Print out and fill in the registration form and send it, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed postcard (but without a stamp if the card is to be sent overseas from Japan), to the following address:.

Secretariat
Japanese Association of Special Education

Amakubo 2-20-7 Legato Hosoda 203
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005
Japan

How to fill in the registration form

  1. If your name and/or address is in Chinese or Korean, please, if possible, write the Japanese reading (furigana) of your name and address in katakana.
  2. If you work for a university, include the name of the department; if the applicant works for a company, include the name of the department and section.
  3. Include your profession, or if you are a student, specify whether you are a graduate student, research student, undergraduate, etc.
  4. Under “Academic Curriculum,” write the name of the institution you most recently graduated from, and the year of graduation. If you are a university graduate,state your major field. For current students, write the name of the institution you are currently attending, and the number of years of study completed.
  5. State the number of years of working experience.
  6. If there are any changes in your address or any of the other information on the form, please contact the secretariat as soon as possible.

(2) Send the registration form to the office and, within a week, remit the 10,000-yen admission fee by postal transfer to:.

Postal account No. 00320-7-43330
In the name of: Nihon Tokushu Kyouiku Gakkai (JASE)

The administration fee will be considered as the annual membership fee of the year in which the admission is approved. If admission is not approved, the admission fee will be returned.

(3) The admission committee meets at the time of the Executive Directors Committee Meeting, which is held 3 times a year. A notification will be sent to all applicants after that meeting.

Withdrawal from the association

  1. As a general rule, withdrawal from the Association in the middle of a year is not permitted. Withdrawals are accepted if the application is received before the end of April of the current year.
  2. If the annual membership fee is not remitted, the Japanese Journal of Special Education will not be sent.
  3. When the annual membership fee is not remitted for two years consecutively, withdrawal procedures will be undertaken.

III. Student membership fee discount

A regular member enrolled in an educational institution such as a graduate school or specialist course is eligible for a membership fee discount by following a prescribed procedure.

If you want to apply for the student membership fee discount, please follow the procedure below. If anything is unclear, please contact the administrative office of the Association.

Eligibility criteria

Regular members enrolled in educational institutions such as graduate schools and specialist courses (graduate students, graduate research students, Postgraduate Diploma Course for Special Needs Education students, students of training institutions for speech therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, orthoptists, etc.)

Example: Students of College of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities

Discount details

The annual membership fee is discounted from 10,000 yen to 5,000 yen. The discount is only valid for the applied fiscal year, and students are requested to apply every year. There are no differences in conditions, such as participation in activities or distribution of publications.

Application procedure

  1. When you want to join the Association for the first time, please apply to join the Association by mail.
    (If you have already joined, proceed to steps 2 and 3.)
  2. Send the application form and the certificate of school attendance (issued in the fiscal year of application) to the Association administrative office by mail.
  3. After sending the application form, pay the admission application fee within one week.

Cautions on the procedure

Please apply after the beginning of the fiscal year of application, which starts in April.
If the criteria are not met, the annual membership fee will be 10,000 yen. In this case, the administrative office will contact you by email. Please pay the remaining 5,000 yen immediately.

IV. Use of personal data

The registered data will not be used except for eligibility examination, membership fee billing, communication from the Association, and member list.