In the most entrance examinations of undergraduate course, graduate school, or vocational schools, special entrance examination is held for foreign student. Comparing with entrance examination made for Japanese student, content of examination, subjects required are easier and fewer than those of which Japanese student should take. It is better for foreign student to take this entrance examination.

The content of Selection are showed as follows:

Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU )
Japanese Language Proficiency Test
TOEFL, etc
Written Examination
Short Essay in Japanese
Interview

Depending on the school you apply, the content of examination varies. Please make a reference of each school of homepage.

95% national universities require applicants to take EJU while 65% public universities require applicants to do so. Even 44% private universities require the result of EJU. Without taking EJU, the range of your choice of university will be narrow. Therefore, try your best to take it.
EJU will be held twice a year, in June and December. In Japan or in some countries located in Asia.
Please make a reference of EJU?fs official homepage.
http://www2.jasso.go.jp/eju/index_e.html

EJU is carried out in the places showed as follows

Japan: Hokkaido, Miyagi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Ishikawa, Aichi, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Okayama, Fukuoka, and Okinawa

Overseas:India, Indonesia(Jakarta, Surabaya), Vietnam(Hanoi, Ho chin min), Korea(Seoul, Busan),Singapore(Singapore),Thailand(Bangkok),Taiwan(Taipei),Philippine(Manila), Malaysia(Kuala Lumpur), Myanmar( Yangon ) ,Mongolia(Ulan Bator),Russia(Vladivostok )

According to the requirements of the university they want to enter and the course of study they want to pursue, the examinees select the subject tests showed below.

1. Japanese as a foreign language Time: 120 minutes, Score range: 0-400
2. Science(Physics, Chemistry, Biology) Time: 80 minutes, Score range:0-200
3. Mathematics Course 1 for liberal arts faculties or Course 2 for faculties where a higher level mathematics is required. Time: 80 minutes, Score range:0-200
4. Japan and the world Time: 80 minutes, Score range:0-200

Examination fees of the EJU are as follows, but this may be changed without notice. In the case of taking EJU in Japan, examination fee for one subject is 5,460yen (including tax) while two or three subjects is 10,920yen (including tax) Please make a reference of the homepage showed below.
http://www2.jasso.go.jp/eju/ex_fee_e.html

Generally speaking, applicants applying for liberal arts faculties must take Japanese as a foreign language, Japan and the world and Mathematics course 1. Similarly, appliants applying for science faculties must take Japanese as a foreign lauguage, Mathematics course 2 and two subjects from Physics, Chemistry, Biology. However, there are other combinations, please make a confirmation via homepage.
http://www2.jasso.go.jp/eju/use_e.html

Some faculties do not require English examination. You could find these faculties by searching via this homepage.
There are two kinds of English examination. The first kind of English examination is that the school you pursue to enter into carry out English examiantion by themselves. The other kind is that insead of making English exmaination, the side of university ask applicants to send result of some standard English examination, such as TOEFL, TOEIC. Besides, score of The United Nations Associations Test of English, Cambridge English test and step test are also available.
http://www2.jasso.go.jp/eju/use_e.html

Lots of national-established universities require applicants to submit their TOEFL scores. There are totally four sites to take TOEFL. (Two places in Tokyo, one in Yokohama and one in Osaka.)
Please read the following homepage to know details.
http://www.cieej.or.jp/toefl/toefl/index.html

Till 2000, most of the universities or vocational schools asked applicants to submit their score of Japanese Proficiency Language Test level 1 or 2. The number of schools requiring applicants to submit score of JPLT decreased after the debut of Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU) from 2001. However, there are still lots of schools require the score of JPLT.
JPLT will be held in December every year. Application forms are sold in the major book store over Japan. It?fs price is 500yen and test fee costs 5,460 yen. The deadline for application is around 10th September.

Testing Sites in Japan

Hokkaido, Iwate, Miyagi, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Yamanashi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Hiroshima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi, Fukuoka, Oita, Kagoshima, Okinawa (as of 2009)

Homepage address showed below provide information about JPLT in detail.
http://www.jees.or.jp/jlpt/
JPLT is also carried out overseas. Homepage address showed below provide you information about JPLT overseas in detail.
http://www.jlpt.jp/e/index.html