The Japan Foundation calls for the applications for “Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Program for specialist in Cultural and Academic Fields”.
This program is designed to provide specialists (researchers, postgraduate students, librarians, museum curators, etc.) who need a good command of the Japanese-language to conduct field work and research through an intensive residential training course on the Japanese-language.
Application forms can be obtained from here:
http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/japanese.html#jp_7
The deadline for the application is 1st December, 2016.