助じょ教きょう授じゅ

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

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noun

assistant professor; associate professor

Former official academic rank in Japan, roughly equivalent to assistant or associate professor. Replaced by 准教授 (じゅんきょうじゅ) in 2007, but still understood and sometimes used informally or in historical contexts.

彼かれは2005年ねんに助じょ教きょう授じゅに昇しょう進しんした。

He was promoted to assistant professor in 2005.

今いまは准じゅん教きょう授じゅという名めい称しょうが使つかわれているが、昔むかしは助じょ教きょう授じゅと呼よばれていた。

Now the title 准教授 is used, but in the past it was called 助教授.

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が助じょ教きょう授じゅになるfor someone to become an assistant/associate professor
彼かれは三さん十じゅう代だいで助じょ教きょう授じゅになった。
He became an assistant professor in his thirties.