[samurai007]

I'd say at least 95% of the foreigners who have worked in Japan have been English teachers, and many of the rest got a job as a salaryman, so yeah... You can get a student visa, but you'll need to be accepted and enrolled in a school, which will probably mean attending classes in Japanese, and doing assignments in Japanese. And I'm not sure if you are allowed to work on a student visa, or if you are, how much you can work or how easy it is to find a job. It may be that only part-time work is allowed? I'm not sure. All the foreign students I knew in Japan devoted their time to school, none of them had jobs, but that doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't.