[Sangetsu]

I've seen signs at some small businesses in Tokyo saying that they want to hire people on the Working Holiday program, but the hours and pay are not great. Most of these jobs are as wait staff, or bar tenders, and most high schoolers are not old enough to work in these places.

Working Holiday visas are good for 6 months, and are not difficult to obtain in the countries which qualify for them.

The main reason that there is no Working Holiday Visa agreement between America and Japan is because so many people who visit America overstay their visas, often for many years (or forever). America is a strange place, rather than enforce immigration laws, they prefer simply make it more difficult to obtain visas while doing little to nothing to those who overstay. A friend of my gf's went to America on a student visa, it expired 5 or 6 years ago, but she is still living and working in America. You couldn't get away with that in Japan.