[Nyororin]

To live in Japan full time, knowing the language is going to be a necessity if you actually want to get something out of life.

I think what people want you to realize is that going to live in a foreign country is not something you should decide without a lot of thought and experience in that country. To enter a program and commit yourself to being in Japan for a year or more is a big thing, and may not be all that you are dreaming it may be.

Anyway - in order to attend a Japanese university, you will NEED to have some level of Japanese. There are a few schools who accept students without Japanese skills, but it`s more toward Japanese study alone and relatively short term. (Like a year.) At the end of the study period you`d have to enter a regular university course, whether it be of the school you originally studied at or another. The key to that is having the high level JLPT.

In other words, you can`t really hop from your high school straight into a Japanese university.

The best courses of action, in my eyes, would be either attending university in the US and doing an exchange year at some point... Or entering a Japanese language program in Japan and then pursuing a degree here. Either way, you`ll still have to graduate high school normally so spend the next two years studying Japanese to make things easier in the long run.