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04-19-2010, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Blitzwing85 View Post

Now, someone from Japan could learn all that too...but that's the same with almost anything.
That is why jobs for foreigners in Japan are more or less limited to those where being foreign is an advantage- English teaching, translating, or jobs in finance and IT for those with work experience elsewhere and fairly good Japanese skills.

Basically if a Japanese person can do the job, a company is unlikely to go to the trouble of preparing all the visa paperwork needed to hire a foreigner.

Starting a business in a country you haven't spent much time in and where you don't speak the language fluently? Doesn't sound like a good idea really.

To get the visa to run a business here one of the requirements is to hire two Japanese nationals as full time staff, so it isn't something you can do unless you have quite a bit of capital to start with.
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