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A licence to practice nursing in the the U.S. is just that, and doesn't translate into anything outside of the U.S. The same is true for nurses coming from Japan to the U.S. It's a difficult process of getting your syllabi and class lists translated by a third party to prove what you have studied, and then filling in the gaps for anything missing.

I am no expert on the subject, but that was the experience I saw.