The JPS accepts application for membership at all times. Applications submitted are examined by the Board of Governors of the JPS, a process that may take between 1-and-half and 2 months, before the final permission is decided.

The rights and obligations of JPS members are specified in the rules and regulations, which shall be sent to the applicant together with the notification of acceptance. For those who desire to know prior to the notification, we also send out, upon request, JPS rules and regulations.

The JPS utilizes personal information gathered from applicants, as much as is necessary, in pursuit of the objectives of the Society. For details on this point, see ・On the collection, utilization and control of personal information at the JPS ・

<What you need for the submission of JPS membership application>

(If any of the following are missing, we cannot process your application)

- Application form, filled by applicant

- Brochure for JPS membership applicants

- JPS membership application form

- Entry fee and membership fee for 1 year

- Students must also submit a document certifying that he or she is a student at a school or a university

Please send the above to

JPS membership desk, JPS, Eishin Kaihatsu Bldg. 5 th floor,

5-34-3 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004, Japan

- Registration of data ・the applicant must also register with JPS data on name, school background, place of work, and home address. The form will be sent to the applicant via electronic mail as he or she types in the e-mail address and clicks the below JPS Membership Applicant Form・ Please type in the relevant data and send back to nyukai@jps.or.jp .

JPS Membership Applicant Form

1. JPS membership application form

- Please print out and fill in the above PDF file. The form is also attached to the April and November issues of the JPS journal Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi・

2. Entry fee and membership fee for 1 year

- Please use the below table to calculate the required amount and send in cash or money order by registered mail. The applicant is also asked to pay in a year's membership fee upon application, which will cover the membership fee for the period between permission to join JPS and the end of that year. The difference will be carried forward, and the new member will enjoy a corresponding discount of the annual membership fee in the second year.

- The above refers to basic membership fee only. The membership journal Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi・will be sent to all members who have paid in the basic fee.

- Full member (graduate student)・refer to those full members in graduate school requesting a discount of the annual fee on grounds of his or her student status. (Please see below section 3 on certificate of student status・

- Student member・refers to undergraduate students at universities and colleges.

- Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi・and other journals issued by the JPS could also be sent to foreign addresses, for a fee.

If you have any question, please send a mail to kaiin@jps.or.jp .

For the below journals, please add to the entry fee and annual membership fee the necessary amount.

Daigaku no Butsuri Kyoiku (Physics education in Universities)・1,000 yen

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (JPSJ)

Online Edition 9,000 yen

Online + Print Editions 12,000 yen

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP)

Online Edition 12,000 yen

Online + Print Editions 20,000 yen

A full JPS member who wishes to subscribe to the online and print editions of the JPSJ will have to pay

14,000 yen + 12,000 yen = 26,000 yen.

A full JPS member receiving graduate student discount who wishes to subscribe to the JPSJ online edition will have to pay

10,000 yen + 9,000 yen = 19,000 yen.

(Those wishing to subscribe to Progress of Theoretical Physics・must contact directly Theoretical Physics Publication Association )

3. Certificate of student status

Those who wish to receive student discount of membership fee must submit a document that certifies his or her student status. Graduate students who request a discount in the membership fee are entitled to a reduction of their fee to a student member level (7,000 yen/year). In the absence of a certificate of student status, however, the discount will not take place and the graduate student will have to pay the full membership fee (11,000 yen/year). Please also note that upon the student member's entry into graduate school and upon the advance from the masters' course to the PhD course, the member must each time apply for a discount.