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Originally Posted by sarasi
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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That is the major problem. I have found the same issues with Canada and they speak my language.
Maybe i've just missed the boat in a sense. If i had spent some time in a foreign country (or a few) when i was younger it would have been fine. I had zero commitments. For numerous years i had very high pay and lived with parents (16-22), and saved up a lot of money.
However i wasted it all on expensive cars and i can't change the past.
Now that i've bought a house and settled down it's considerably harder to move. I have commitments which require a good wage, so changing careers and starting at the bottom is not really an option.
I may yet have a chance though...once my loans are finished my only commitment is my house. Now because i'm in positive equity then selling it, moving and starting a job for a lower pay would be possible.
End of the day i could experience it for a few years then come back and easily find a job which pays well again.
I'm not really that fond of the business idea anywhere, even in the UK. To be honest unless it was going to be insanely sucessfull and make me rich then i'm more than happy to let someone else deal with all that and pay me well but have a lot less responsibility.
Plus, with current economy situations i think starting a business is a bad idea.
If i had planned right i would have had sufficient capitol to pay 2 or more wages for 1-2 years but i didn't...so the ideas pretty much redundant really.
Maybe i should just settle with going on holiday numerous times. I know you don't really get to experience a culture properly as a tourist but if i could indeed stay with a family then that would be great.
I'll be at least looking into that option first and foremost.
Emigrating is something i just like to think about and maybe 1 day it will happen. Guess we'll see.