"Hi there Jone87!

Sorry for the late reply...yes the Masters degree here carries the same concept as in Malaysia. You can choose whether you want to do just research or just classes or both. Just research courses are normally cheaper than others.

A lot of universities offer master degree in either Marketing/Advertising/Management. I think almost all universities hihi  Urm the best universities for these as far as I`m concern are Keio, Waseda, Chuo, Hosei and Aoyama Gakuin. But these are all private universities. If you`re thinking of national Unis, they`ll be Hitotsubashi, Tsukuba, Yokohama National Uni, Kyoto, Osaka Uni.

So first of all you need to enroll into a japanese language school. Beware that the closing date for applications are always 2-3 months before the commencing date...everything here is done really early. This is due to the fact that they have to send in your application to the Tokyo Immigration bureau for an inspection. Basically they wanna check if you are blacklisted or not hehe  Hihi  The japanese school that I went to was ABK or also known as Asia Bunka Kaikan or Ajia gakusei bunka kyoukai.
Love it...lots of Malaysians there...and other asians of course. One of the best japanese language school I`d say although I don`t know much about other schools. I really recommend my japanese language school though.

You can choose the duration of how long you wanna study japanese before you enter a university. If you enroll in April, it will be a one-year course or if you enroll in October it`ll be a 1 and 1/2 years course. Take your pick 

If you need help with applying to any japanese language school, just let me know...I`ll try and help as much as I can 

Hope this helps..Ganbatte ne