I'm 19, from the UK and have a National Diploma. Are there any ways to gain a working visa for Japan without having a degree. Can work experience substitute instead? What do i need without question? Thanks
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Yes-you are from the UK so you could get a working holiday visa, which is actually the most desirable kind from the job-hunting perspective. You could also work up to 20 hours a week on a pre-college or a culture visa. They are a lot stricter nowadays about making sure you are actually attending classes, etc., but it's not as if someone follows you around and keeps track of how many hours you work. For the purpose of language teaching it's only contact hours that count towards your 20 in any case. Culture visas used to be abused back in the day and there was a crackdown, but it is still possible to obtain one if you are really keen on karate or tea ceremony or whatever. Obviously you couldn't be on a working holiday or student visa forever, but you could spin it out a couple of years. What you need without question is money, but you don't actually have to have cash to meet the working holiday financial requirement-a letter of credit will do. So save up your money and just go.
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You're in luck, you have several options available to you. The first is to get a 4 year degree or equivalent. The second is to marry a Japanese national. The third is to have 10 years of documented experience (which means you can only work in that field). The fourth is to go on a working holiday which means you're limited to only working for 20 hours a week. Those are your choices.
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Working-Holiday visa is totally different from Working visa. You may enjoy it if you have enough stock in your back pack, otherwise, all you have to do would be hell damned English teacher without any net income. It is because using working-holiday visa, you are only allowed to work within few money by which you absolutely can't survive in. You'll soon have to be obliged to take some illegal side-jobs either way, if you don't have enough budget to stay there in advance. Without having 4 year degree or equivalent, it is hardly get any sponsor who can apply C.O.E. for you in Japan to apply the WORKING visa. In addition, due to heavily recession at the moment, not so many companies are looking for new intellectual foreign employee there. No Japanese language skill as same as mother tongue can let you qo real quick to apply working visa to Japan if you understand the reality.
