Mr Blaker,
Welcome to E-Budo.
I have looked over the thread in Kendo World and see that we have a reputation to live up to...
At present I am teaching a class of overseas students at Hiroshima University's Graduate School of International Development (IDEC). Most of them are from Asia and all of them have Monkasho scholarships of some kind. The level of Japanese varies--and varied among the overseas students I encountered in other graduate schools in the university. In fact, we made the standards higher in my own faculty (1-kyu, or failure by a narrow margin).
One question I have is whether you need to have applied to or been accepted by a university here, in order to apply for a scholarship. I also suggest that you cast your net more widely than Kyodai or Sangyo.
Best wishes, and if you have any questions that you think I can answer, by all means ask.
Peter Goldsbury,
Forum Administrator,
Hiroshima, Japan