[Akakage]

Seeing as you haven't gotten a reply I'll try and be as helpful as possible...

Are talking about transferring high school credits or college credits? For example do you plan on taking a few years in Canada and then go to Japan?

As far as I can tell Japan is much like the US, you can definitely make a living out of Journalism.

However...if you're majoring in English/journalism/creative writing, I'm guessing you would be shooting for writing for an English paper in Japan. I can't imagine there would be that many in Japan. But who knows...hopefully someone can answer that for you.