Hi everyone, my name is Enyy a fresh university graduate,I really wish to relocate to japan for a good job and I need some orientation from you guys concerning their culture and easy way to understand Japanese, and beside I will like to meet people from japan and also want some website that can help me out. I study business administration and management in university.I'm expecting positive feedback

enius Wrote:I'm expecting positive feedback

Just call the Japanese embassy in your current country of residence and tell them about your endeavor. As they've long been waiting for their Messiah, they will welcome you with open arms, charter an airplane for you and arrange for you to stay at the Emperor's residence.

Based on the effort you put into this post and the effort required for a successful relocation to Japan, it's hard to have a positive outlook. Why should people spend their time helping you when you didn't even bother to provide the required background information?

I'd suggest that you first think through the matter, do the required research and then come back with concrete information and questions rather than a shameless request for hand-holding.

There isn't necessarily an easy way to understand Japanese, as learning just about any language requires time and dedication. You might do a google search for Japanese immersion, which is basically the concept of learning Japanese through an immersive Japanese environment that you set up for yourself.

While that won't necessarily make learning Japanese easy, it will make it so that you can create a potentially fun atmosphere for yourself while you learn.

As far as getting a good job in japan goes, I don't have any real experience in that realm. However, most people who don't speak/know Japanese tend to take the English teacher route through some job agency that specifically caters to that occupation. I don't have any sites, though. So you might just google "teaching English in Japan."

However, as you're teaching English in Japan, you can do two things: 1) Learn the language while working and living in Japan, and 2) Branch out and potentially find a better job within your field of expertise, since you already have a base of operations, so to speak. But it might prove somewhat difficult to find a job within your field without knowledge of the language as well as lack of experience within your chosen career field.

Meeting people tends to boil down to finding sites dedicated to that interest/finding groups around where you're living that have interests similar to yours. I don't know of any unfortunately.

Teaching is the only viable option really (in this instance). Most businesses that hire foreigners from overseas for actual career positions (teaching isn't a career) are looking for people with experience. If you have a lot of experience, some places will look past poor Japanese, but if you have some skill and near fluent Japanese then they'll tend to look past the lower skill.

https://www.daijob.com/en/

Another way to do it would be to continue to study with an MBA in Japan and then search for jobs as you are graduating from the program. However, I know many of the programs, like the one at Doushisha, require you to have some work experience before you enter.

Anyway, I know people that have gotten pretty good jobs in Japan by getting their MBA in Japan.

Also, keep in mind that Japanese work culture sucks a lot. So, you should consider that when thinking of moving to Japan for a job.

hyvel Wrote:

enius Wrote:I'm expecting positive feedback

I'd suggest that you first think through the matter, do the required research and then come back with concrete information and questions rather than a shameless request for hand-holding.

Yeah, shame on you enius for coming in here and asking people in a general way for some help or information.

/sarcasm

Have you considered that as this person is not a native English speaker they might be attempting to get across something with a different nuance by that word "expect"? You can always reply to general questions with general answers. This is an internet forum. We are voluntarily wasting our "precious" time by being here in the fist place, so why the anger?

First of all, I'm so sorry for the odd words used by me in above sentences ,I don't mean to rude or been too offensive to anybody,I'm so exicted for the feedback so helpful indeed,I really appreciate the contributions,finally here is my contact eniusenny@yahoo.com

Danchan Wrote:Have you considered that as this person is not a native English speaker they might be attempting to get across something with a different nuance by that word "expect"? You can always reply to general questions with general answers. This is an internet forum. We are voluntarily wasting our "precious" time by being here in the fist place, so why the anger?

Well, I guess I probably took the wording too literally and it hit my nerves in the wrong spot. The confrontational answer was a bit mean, but I'd still stand by my main concern which is a lack of information. The only thing we know is that he/she studied(/s) business administration and management and that's it. However, to address the matter concretely, we'd need a lot more information such as:

Country of origin and age in order to find out if the he/she has a chance of becoming an English teacher in Japan, or if e.g. the working holiday visa is possible.

Motivation: Why does he/she want to go to Japan? What are the goals? Why Japan?

Ambitions: What kind of work would he/she like to do? What constitutes a 'good job' in his/her view? If the prime concern is a good work-life balance, good luck finding that in Japan. If a good job is equivalent with a high paying job, Japan is probably also the wrong place unless the person in question is in the 50s.

Timeframe: Does he/she want to relocate immediately? Or after learning Japanese? This also affects the other question about meeting Japanese people. Should this happen online, once he/she is in Japan, or in the current country?

Relocating to Japan requires addressing a lot of questions such as visa, job, language, housing etc., but this can hardly be done without knowing anything about the person. Furthermore, establishing oneself in Japan will take several years, and it would be a shame to go through all the effort required only to find out that Japan isn't the magical place the person envisioned it to be.

Of course one can answer in a general way, but then we risk just beating around the bush. I realize endeavors such as this one usually originate from vague ambitions and hopes. So the person in question might not even have the answers to some of the above questions yet, and I'd agree that it is hard to think through them. However, unless the person has done the required thinking it's hard to help with concrete information, which is my main lament. If this came from a naive high school kid, I'd be inclined to hold them to lower standards. However, this is coming from a college graduate, so I have higher expectations - be it from a native speaker of English or not.

@enius: I don't want to be mean, but I hope that you can understand my frustration due to the lack of background information.