Please refer to Official Announcement of the Open Position for precise information and application procedures
Below is an informal supplementary explanation, especially for people unfamiliar with academic positions in Japan.
The position ("Jokyo" in Japanese, sometimes translated as "Assistant Professor" in English) is a part of the faculty ladder in Japanese University system. The contract for Research Associates varies among different institutions. At ISSP, although the Research Associate is not tenure-track, it is a 5 years-position, which is renewable for another 5 years (maximum 10 years in total) upon a performance review. You may regard this as a "Distinguished postdoc" position.
Both of the former Research Associates of our group have had productive years at ISSP, and now are in tenured faculty positions [Jun Ohkubo (2007-2010 at ISSP), now Full Professor at Saitama University, and Yasuhiro Tada (2011-2021 at ISSP), now Associate Professor at Hiroshima University].
We are looking for an outstanding junior theorist who is interested in condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics of quantum many-body systems, and related areas (field theory, quantum information, etc.) I do hope that the successful candidate will have fruitful collaborations with me and other group members (especially graduate students), but the Research Associate is also free to pursue his/her own interest and develop collaborations with other groups within and outside ISSP.
At ISSP, there is no teaching duty for Research Associates except for contributing to advising graduate students. Therefore you are not required to master Japanese language. We have good secretarial supports for non-native speakers of Japanese at ISSP, so we believe that this is an attractive position also for non-Japanese if you share scientific interest with Prof. Oshikawa. (See for example publications of Prof. Oshikawa .)
Despite the distinguished nature of the position, we welcome applications by outstanding graduate students anticipating Ph.D. in the near future, as well as fresh Ph.D.s
If you have any further question, please contact Prof. Oshikawa at e-mail: oshikawa@domain (replace domain with issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp).