Research on cross-cultural abjustment has recently taken on a turn toward focusing on the implications of social networks. This report deals with a study which investigated the roles of social support networks on newly arrived international students in Japan. Eighteen subjects were surveyed at the end of their first academic semester, concerning the structure of their social networks and their abjustment. Cluster analysis and correlations were conducted to determine the relationship between the two variables. It was discovered that in the three month period, subjects had developed relationships in which they could attain mainly practical support, such as information receiving. The amount of support, although relating to subjective judgements on academic progress and their stress coping strategies, was independent of the indices for maladjustment. It can be interpreted that the three month duration was insufficient toward the development of a network that was extensive enough to show any psycological effectiveness in reducing signs of maladjustment, and that these students must rely on themselves toward solution of such problems.