Ten of these exist in any year, and nobody applies for one. The University of Tokyo picks recipients out of the PEAK admission screening and tells them when it tells them they are admitted, so the admission application carries the entire case.
What it covers is the whole cost of being there: the admission fee, tuition, and 126,000 yen a month to live on, across four years.
Two conditions shape how it is held. It is reviewed annually against academic performance rather than granted outright for the four years, and it assumes four consecutive years of study, so an interruption puts it at risk. Recipients also cannot, in principle, hold another scholarship alongside it, which matters for anyone weighing a home-country government award at the same time.
PEAK itself is the route in. The programmes are English-taught undergraduate degrees at Komaba, built for students educated outside Japan, and this award sets no nationality restriction of its own on top of that.
Worth knowing what sits beside it on the same page, since a student gets one offer rather than a choice: up to five PEAK admits are instead offered the Japanese Government MEXT scholarship, which pays 120,000 yen a month and adds a round-trip flight.
The scholarships page was checked on 16 September 2026.