A suggestion in contacting Japanese professors

• If you are a foreign student and wish to study in Japan, it is strongly suggested to be polite in contacting Japanese professors. If you send a polite request for a schalarship, grant, position, other oppertunities, etc. to them, and even if you receive a disappointing answer, you absolutely have to respond to them expressing your thanks for spending time for you, or, at least, for giving an answer to you. The contacted professor may have tried to find an appropriate resource, and found it not available soon, and answered to you politely saying "I am sorry not being able to accept your request now" or something like that. Any way, you have give a reply.
• If you do not do this, you will make the professor disappointed and upset. You are losing your future chances. After experiencing numerous such cases, many Japanese professors finally become not responding at all to any requests from students in foreign countries. Japanese people try to be polite to others. If you do not, you will not be trusted by Japanese people.
• The best way is to thank them for giving an answer, adding your hope for the future possiblities. You may ask them to add your name in their lists of prospective international students and to let you know when a chance comes. Actually, in Japan, a chance often comes suddenly with a new project, an additional budget from the government, or a newly established organization.