How to Become a Member

JASID is an academic society with the aim of bringing together the knowledge and experience about development from multiple disciplines. We also aim to contribute to the development of human resources for further enrichment of research and practice in the field of international development. JASID is a vibrant association with experienced researchers and practitioners as well as young professionals and researchers.   

Applications for membership are accepted at any time. Those who want to be a JASID member is requested to read the following page and click ‘Membership Application Form’ in this page.

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Membership Categories and Annual Membership Fees

• Full member: 10,000 yen
• Full member (over 70 years old): 5,000 yen
• Student member: 5,000 yen
• Supporting Member: 30,000 yen or more

* Admission fee is not required.
* Financial year: October 1st – September 30^th
* If you are a working student, please register as a full member. In this case, please enter the name of your company in the “Affiliation” field (Not the name of the university).

First-year membership fee

Depending on the time of admission, the annual membership fee for the first year of will be reduced as follows. Membership screening is irregular, and the timing of admission cannot be specified in advance.

Approved from October to March

• Full member: 10,000 yen
• Full member (over 70 years old): 5,000 yen
• Student member: 5,000 yen

Approved from April to September

• Full member: 5,000 yen
• Full member (over 70 years old): 2,500 yen
• Student member: 2,500 yen

All members are eligible and no application is required for this reduction. Please check the amount on the invoice included in your membership approval notice.

Annual Membership Fee Reduction Programme

Regardless of the time of admission, we have established a reduced membership fee programme for JASID members who are experiencing financial hardship. If you wish to apply for this reduction programme of your first year’s membership fee, please read the requirements written in the email which we will send you after you send application form.

– Full member (No full-time job): 5,000yen (5,000 off)
– Student member: 2,000yen (3,000 off)

For new members aged 70 or older, the age-based reduction will apply, and they will not be eligible for the reduction due to financial hardship.

After the second year, the JASID Secretariat Office will announce the membership fee reduction application procedure for the following year on the mailing list around August of each year. The reduction will be applied only to those members who have applied in the prescribed manner within the period specified in the e-mail and who have been approved by the Executive Board. Please be sure to read through the emails distributed from the JASID Secretariat.

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Member Benefits

For Full member:

• Qualification for applying to the presentation in the annual and spring conference
• Qualification for the participation in the annual and spring conference
• Participation and application for presentation in JASID branch
• Participation and making presentation of research group activity
• Submission for our society’s journal, ‘Journal of International Development Studies’
• Distribution of the copy of ‘Journal of International Development Studies’
• Receipt of ‘JASID News Letter’ (4 times per year)
• Receipt of ‘JASID Mail Magazine’ (from time to time), and request to delivery news
• Request for the notification at JASID website
• Application for JASID Prize
• Right of voting and eligibility for election of JASID board member

For Student member:

• Basically, student member receives the same services as Full member
• However, you wish to make a presentation at annual or spring conference, you need recommendation of your professors
• Right of voting for election of JASID board member (no eligibility for being elected)

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Steps to Join JASID

To become a member, please click ‘Membership Application Form’ button.

Page1: Agreement

Please read ‘Articles of Agreement of Japan Society for International Development’. If you agree this article, please check ‘agree’ and click ‘Register’ button.

Page 2: Authentication

Please mention your e-mail address and click the ‘send’ button.

Page 3: Profile

You will receive an e-mail concerning e-mail address verification. Please click URL in this mail, and complete the registration of your profile. Please click ‘Next’ button.

Page 4: Application info

 Please check your membership fee and click ‘Next’ button.

Page5: Payment Method

 Please choose payment method (credit card payment or bank transfer) and click ‘confirm’ button. Even if your institution would pay your membership fee, you can choose payment method.

Page 6: Confirm

Please check your application form, and click ‘Register’ button. If you would like to revise your information, please click ‘Back’ button.

Page 7: Complete

 Confirmation letter would be sent to your registered email address. If you can not receive it, please contact JASID Secretariat.

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(Note)

• If you wish to have your membership fee paid by your institution such as a university, please contact JASID Secretariat. In this case, payment can only be made by postal transfer (please bear the remittance fee). Please note that the system does not allow you to select postal transfer as a payment method during the membership application process. Therefore, please select either credit card payment or bank transfer as a convenience method to proceed with the application. After approval of your membership, the JASID Secretariat will change the payment method to postal transfer.
• If you wish to be registered as a student member, please upload a copy of your student ID (both sides) or the official documents that prove your status as a student and shows the expiration date. Without these documents, your application would be reviewed as that of for a full member. If you are a working student, please join as a regular member.
• If you do not receive the URL for membership application or the completed application email, please contact to JASID Secretariat.

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Process to complete the application for membership

Step 1: Application for membership (online application)

If you are interested in joining our society, please click on the Membership Application Form and fill in the necessary information to apply.

Step 2: Acceptance by JASID Secretariat

JASID Secretariat will confirm the information you have entered. If there are any inaccuracies or questions, our staff will contact you by e-mail.

Step 3: Review by the JASID Executive Board Committee

The application for membership will be reviewed by JASID Executive Board Committee. If any problem arises, JASID Secretariat will contact you.

Step 4: Notification of approval and billing of annual membership fee

After the JASID Executive Board Committee approves your application as JASID member, you will receive an e-mail from JASID Secretariat that your application has been approved and that you will be charged the annual membership fee. Please pay the annual membership fee according to the contents of the e-mail.

Step 5: Membership registration completion email and notification of membership number

After JASID Secretariat confirm your payment of the annual membership fee, , you will receive an e-mail informing that your membership registration has been completed. Your membership number will also be included in that email. And you will be able to receive the society’s mailing list after your membership registration is complete. If there are our society’s journal “International Development Studies” left, we will also send you the latest one by mail. Please note that it may take a certain amount of time for the journal to be sent.

For those who wish to join as a supporting member (companies and organizations)
If you are in charge of a company or organization that would like to become a supporting member, please contact to JASID Secretariat using the inquiry form.

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About collection of personal information

JASID has ‘JASID Privacy Policy’. Please see the following site for details.

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Questions and Inquiries

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Contact

JASID Secretariat

c/o Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO
3-2-2 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-City, Chiba 261-8545
JAPAN
Tel: +81-43-299-9582
E-mail: hq [at] (replace [at] with @)

• HOSHINO, Akinari (Secretary General)
• OWA, Masumi
• SHIMAZU, Yuki

For inquiries, please contact

To contact the JASID Secretariat office, please use the form from the button below or send your inquiry to the following e-mail address.

Contact Form

Email Addresses

• hq [at]
• [at]

(replace [at] with @)

Business Hours

Tuesdays and Fridays (closed during long vacations)

Postal Address

JASID Secretariat
c/o Institute of Developing Economies
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
3-2-2 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 261-8545, Japan

Two methods of payment are available on “My Page”: credit card payment and online banking payment by bank check.

However, bank checks are only available in Japan and cannot accept money transfers from overseas.

For this reason, if you have selected bank check as your payment method when creating your invoice, please send money from overseas to JASID’s Japan Post Bank account, not to the bank check account number.

Please refer to the following page for instructions on how to send money to the Japan Post Bank account.

A: Every August, we ask student members to submit their student ID card to prove that they are students.　At this time, they can continue their student membership if they submit a copy of a document that proves that they are on a leave of absence (e.g., a certificate of absence from school).

Please note that you must remember to renew your membership every year until you return to school. If not submitted, you will become a regular member from the following year. In addition, from the FY2023 (October 2022), we have established a self-suspension system, so you may use it.

For working students, we ask that you join as a full member. If you have any questions, please contact the JASID Secretariat.

Answer

第33回全国大会にて開催された会員総会において、入会時に必要であった推薦者2名を不要とすることが決定されました。このため、入会に際して推薦者の氏名をご記入いただく必要はなくなりました。ただし、会員種別ごとに、以下の情報を追記して頂くことになっております。

正会員

1. 入会のきっかけに関するアンケート

ご入会のきっかけとなった学会員の氏名と所属機関の記入欄が設けられました。入力必須の項目ではありませんが、調査にご協力をお願いいたします。

2. CVのアップロード

「学生証または在学証明書（学生のみ必須）」の欄に、CVのPDFファイルをアップロードしてください（書式自由）。必須ではございませんが、よりご興味のある情報を提供できるようご協力をお願いいたします。

学生会員

指導教員情報（必須）

項目に、指導教員の氏名と所属、連絡先メールアドレスを記載してください（非会員でも構いません）。学部生等で指導教員がいないばあいは、本部事務局までお問い合わせください。

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本件にかんするお問い合わせ先

国際開発学会・本部事務局

Answer:

会員種別の判断は、毎年10月1日時点の在籍状況によって決定いたします。

毎年、学生会員の学籍確認の手続きについて、8月頃にメールをお送りしています。

大学院を修了された会員は、次年度の会員資格の変更手続きを行いますので、指定する方法で学籍を外れた旨を本部事務局までご連絡ください。

卒業年月直後に始まる学会の新年度（毎年10月1日）より、会員種別を正会員に変更させていただきます。会費の金額が変わりますのでご注意ください。

なお、修了後、常勤職を持たない会員におかれましては会費の減額制度がご利用頂けます。

この会費減額制度の利用には、募集期限内の本人による届出が必要になります。

期限内に届出がない場合は、通常の正会員としての会費をご請求いたします。

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本件にかんするお問い合わせ先

国際開発学会・本部事務局

Answer

If you are a working adult enrolled in a graduate school, your membership status is Full Member, not Student Member.

Full members who do not hold a full-time position are able to apply for reduced annual membership fee programme.

Reference: Notice of Application for Dues Reduction for FY 2024 [D/L: 17th Sep.]

If you do not have a job and are enrolled in a university, you can change your membership status to Student Member from the next year by following the procedures below.

However, student members are subject to various restrictions on academic activities that are not required of regular members (e.g., conference presentations, paper submissions, etc.).

For this reason, we recommend that you continue to be a full member as long as possible.

Application Procedure

• The screening will be held once a year in September (the results will be notified in October).
• The application submission period will be announced in August on our mailing list and in our newsletter.
• Please apply through the designated application form URL that will be included in the mailing list
• After review by the Executive Board, the membership will be changed to student membership from the following year.

Criteria to decide

Membership categories are determined by affiliation as of October 1 of each year.

ex. 1）Enrollment in April 2023

1. Complete the application process by August 2023 (submit a copy of your student ID card/proof of enrollment)
2. Review by the Executive Board of Directors
3. Switch to student membership in FY2024 (from October 2023)
4. Annual membership fee invoices issued in April 2024 will change to student membership rates.

ex. 2）Enrollment in October 2023

1. Complete the application process by the end of August 2023 (submit letter of admission in lieu of proof of enrollment)
2. Review by the Executive Board of Directors
3. Switch to student membership in FY2024 (from October 2023)
4. Submit a copy of your student ID or proof of enrollment by October 2023
5. Annual membership fee invoices issued in April 2024 will change to student membership rates

Note

In the case of a change of membership status from full member to student member, if the application is not submitted by the deadline, the change of membership status to student member for the following year will NOT be accepted.

If you are unable to arrange for the documents to confirm your student registration in time by the deadline, please contact the JASID secretariat office before the deadline.

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Contact

the JASID secretariat office

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Continuation or Change of Membership Type for 2024

For Student Members

Each year in August/September, we conduct a confirmation of eligibility as a student member for the upcoming year.

Student members who fall under any of the following categories must submit proof (such as a copy of their student ID card) that they are still a student on or after October 1 during the following application period by following the procedures below.

• Student members whose student ID uploaded on Member My Page is valid until the end of September 2023
• Student members whose student ID documents (including student ID cards) uploaded to Member My Page do not show an expiration date
• Student members whose [Last Education > Date of Graduation/Completion] on My Page is before the end of September 2023

Application Period

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 – Sunday, September 17, 2023
*Deadline to be strictly observed

How to apply

Please complete the following application form.
[JASID_ FY2024] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

• Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023
  *Deadline is strictly enforced.

Student members who can upload their latest student ID only after October 1, 2023

Please notify Secretariat of the delay in submitting your student ID through the application form above by the response deadline.

• Deadline for response: Sunday, September 17, 2023
  *Deadline to be strictly observed.

〔Note〕

Student members who have not contacted or consulted us in advance and whose academic enrollment as of October 1 has not been confirmed by the JASID Secretariat as of the end of September will automatically have their membership type switched to regular membership starting in the new fiscal year (October).

Accordingly, the annual membership fee will change from 5,000 yen to 10,000 yen (membership fee will be invoiced in early April 2024).

Student members who have already left the academic register

Student members who plan to change to full membership in the next fiscal year should declare their enrollment status as of October 2023 using the application form below.

After that, please log in to your My Page to delete your student ID file and update your affiliation information.

[JASID_ FY2024] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

• Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023
  *Deadline to be strictly observed.

Request to Academic Advisors

Regardless of whether they are international students or not, many student members are uninformed about the systems and mechanisms of academic societies.

If you have supervising student who is belonging to JASID as a student member, please instruct them on the procedures for continuing student membership.

Full member who wish to change their membership status to student member

Please read the following URL to see if you qualify for student membership.

Eligibility for Student Membership

Q: I am no longer a student

Procedure

If you are a full member who meets the requirements for student membership and would like to change your membership type to student membership from the FY2024, please use the application form below to complete the academic certification process.

Please note that working students are requested to belong as full members.

[JASID_ FY2024] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

• Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023 *Deadline to be strictly observed

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Contact

JASID Secretariat Office
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This is JASID Secretariat. Thank you for your cooperation. Today, we inform you of two important notices.

Check Your Membership Status in FY2023

For Student members

On October 1, JASID will have come a new finical year (FY2023). If you would like to continue the status of student member in FY 2023, please upload a copy of your current student ID card on a Google form “[JASID] Verification of Student Member Eligibility” as below by September 25, 2022. Either a digital scan or clearly taken digital photograph is welcome.

[JASID] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

*Deadline: September 25, 2022

If you are unable to provide proof of student status by September 25, please contact the JASID secretariat office using e-mail. If you do not inform your situation in advance, you will become a full member after October 1, and your annual membership fee will be 10,000 yen.

In addition, if you plan to change your membership type to full member in the next fiscal year, please delete the student ID file uploaded on your “My Page” and update your affiliation information.

Change Membership Status

If you are a full member in FY2022 and wish to change your membership status to a student member, please contact the JASID secretariat office. We would like to inform you about the screening process for change of membership type.

For working students, we ask that you remain as a full member.

Update Your Information

If you have any other membership information that needs to be changed, please log in to your “My Page” from the URL below and update your information.

If you have any question, please contact the JASID Secretariat.

With very best wishes,

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Contact

JASID Secretariat

Dear JASID members,

This is JASID Secretariat. Thank you for your cooperation to JASID.
The new fiscal year has started on October 1. We would like to inform you about the billing of membership fees for the fiscal year 2022 (October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022).
Please check the following carefully as there will be some important changes to the timing and methods of payment.

 

■Billing of membership fees from FY 2022

– JASID’s fiscal year and the public’s fiscal year are half a year apart. As a result, some members did not pay their fees until April of the following year even though they received the bill of membership fee in October. Therefore, from this fiscal year, JASID Secretariat will charge the annual membership fee in every April as a general rule.

– With the above change, JASID Secretariat plans to charge the 2022 membership fee around April 10, 2022. We will announce the date upon our decision.
However, if you need to pay the membership fee by March for any special reason, please contact the JASID Secretariat.

 

■Methods for Membership fee payment

– As a general rule, the membership fee payment method is the online payment at ‘Invoice/Payment Info’ page after log-in your ‘My Page’ (). You can choose to make payments via credit card or bank transfer, with no transaction charge. Credit card payment has been set as the default when updating to the new system. If bank transfer is more convenient for you, please change it from ‘Change Next Payment Method’ page under ‘My Information’ When your institution pays the membership fee, please select credit card payment by the end of March 2022. When you download the invoice, the account information is written on the invoice.

■Membership fee for 70 years old and over

The JASID Board decided the membership fee for members over 70 years old will be halved from this fiscal year. To apply this, we need your birthday. Although we have already sent emails and letters to the eligible members, please let us know your birthday.

If you have any questions, please contact us.