Wednesday, April 21, 2010

How hard would it be for a foreigner to work in Japan


How hard would it be for a foreigner to work in Japan?
Living in Japan would be my dream. I've been looking around to see what kind of jobs are available for foreigners and most of them have a native english level as a requirement. My native language is french so I don't meet the criteria. If I search for jobs where you don't need english or japanese as a native language, there's only about 5% of jobs left... Is it really like that all the time?
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What is it that you want to do here? Usually if you don't speak English or Japanese, then your options will be SEVERELY limited - although you seem to speak English well enough for any work setting (certainly better than most Japanese people). In general, though, unless you want to be an English teacher (read: paid monkey), there aren't many jobs available... and even if you did get here, you may find that your dream doesn't match the reality.