How to move to Japan WITHOUT Teaching English (and with no degree)
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- So you want to move to Japan, but you want to avoid being an English teacher? Well, this information will most certainly be helpful to you.
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Man one thing I have to say is that the titles of your videos are such a pleasant contrast to all the standard Japan bs thumbnails. Very nice, you choose topics that are actually interesting, not some generic stuff
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
It's like you knew I was moving to japan and didn't want to teach so made this video exclusively for me. I must purchase every affiliate item and join all the patreons.
😂😂 Glad it helps!
Don’t work for an eikaiwa or as an ALT. However, if you’re up to putting in the time to become high school level literate you can obtain a teaching license from a Japanese university and make 3 times what an ALT makes, have 40 paid holidays above and beyond your weekly 2 days off and 15 national holidays as well as a retirement package of around $150,000 when you retire. That’s the path I took, albeit it took 15 years of diligent study before I was accepted into a teaching licensing program at a Japanese university. I’ve been teaching in Japan for 30 years, 15 as an ALT, 15 as a full-time teacher. I absolutely LOVE my job. It’s the only job I could ever have said that about.
Pivoting into university teaching is the right way for that career path for sure!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel I’m a high school teacher.
@@gordonbgraham lol 40 holidays but you can't take them, unpaid overtime work everyday of the week and bukatsudou on weekends, no thanks mate.
@@cadestrathern1260 You most certainly CAN take them and are encouraged to use them all up. Those you don’t carry over. As of 5 years ago MEXT remotely monitors teachers’ hours to ensure the updated labor laws apply. Those who coach sports clubs like baseball are compensated for overtime. Those of us who run other clubs go home at 5 and don’t work Sundays. We are allotted 2 days a week, Sunday and a weekday that changes annually. Mine was Friday the previous two years and Tuesdays this year. I run a youth ice hockey program outside of school. It’s my passion just as baseball is the passion of those who coach high school baseball. We don’t consider coaching work.
@@cadestrathern1260 Not only CAN you take them you MUST take them. There's no longer such a thing as "unpaid" overtime. All hours are digitally monitored by MEXT to ensure the updated labor laws are followed. Only teachers who run major sports clubs like baseball work on Sundays for which they are paid OT for the entire day. Those of us in charge of minor clubs do so once or twice a week...from 3:30 to 5pm. All teachers are allotted 2 days off a week. This is besides our mandatory 40 days off a year. Those 40 days don't include the 15 national holidays in Japan.
On my last 5-6 months in my Japanese language school, my classmates joked around how English is the worst job to have and how they were looking for jobs in their specific field of work. Then come the last 2 months before graduation, the same classmates are all scrambling around the internet looking to take any English teaching job, even if it’s was working in a daycare. Seeing as how I already had more qualifications and interviews, it was great. Now post-grad, I work and live in Japan with my wife. Life is perfect.
Life is perfect indeed! I'm living in Japan, married and getting paid in € so the weakening yen has been great lol.
Bro, as a Norwegian gal who wants to work in Japan after I’m done studying, this is literally perfect
Let's go! 🇳🇴🇯🇵
Really good video! Super concise and straight to the point, with your own fun personality mixed in! A rare channel on CZcams with no clickbait!
Thanks! This idea was crossing my mind these days. I returned a few days ago from a 21-day vacation in Japan. I know that vacations and living in Japan are very different things, but I wanted to know, and this video is a starter.
thank you for this info! i've been researching casually and all i see is people who went through the jet program or have a degree w years of experience and now your vid found me! great and concise video, very helpful insight
Only just found your channel, but starting to be a fan already, keep it up!
Thank you for watching and the nice words! Lots of content planned this year!
Great info & video, this gives me hope that I might work in japan too, in the future 😊
Nice!
Another awesome video thanks man
Thank you!!
I'll forever regret not knowing about the under 30 working holiday visa. Fingers crossed I'll be able to manage something when I finish my degree.
Same I was so annoyed with a few famous jtubers that use the program but never mentioned it until like a decade later
To be fair, it's hard to search for something you don't know exists. Anyway, Japan is half the reason I'm doing a university degree now in hopes that I can ease the job hunting process (besides, I didn't want to do my old job anymore so it evens out).
I was thinking about the self sponsor one and after this video my hopes of mooving there skyrocketed, gonna look more into it thank you for the video, I love how easy it is to watch you
Definitely do it! Thanks man!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel just wondering, is it different form the business manager visa? cause that has the requiremente of 5milion capital and 2 employees and I knew only about that one
@@v0idz Yeah, the self sponsor is mostly for freelancers who have a sole proprietorship and just work solo! Business manager visa is used for people who wants to start up a business in Japan with more funds!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel When did this visa came out ? I've checked in the last 3 months all the visa that are available, a few times even and couldn't find a self-sponsor/ freelancer visa that shows up on the list.
Have been pondering being a tutor like Aristotle to a rich house, ofc dune will be attempted do tutoring how to play it correctly is indeed a worthy expense and expensive
Oh hell yeah this is legit. I have very good friends that want me to stay in japan, I already have a place to live and everything. I was tripping out about a work visa thinking wtf am I supposed to do about that. Little did I know, until I watched this video, about the self sponsored visa. I already work remote as a freelancer making well more than 2mil yen. Welp there goes that problem already! Thanks!
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Hej! Intressant video. :) Its funny that CZcams recommends a lot of how to move to Japan etc videos for me but hey I’m here for it lol. It’s great to see! I’ll subscribe to your channel. :) greetings from Sweden
Tack tack!
just stumbled upon your video and I find it absolutely hilarious!
Obscenely informative 🤘
Thank you finally someone who talks about other possibilities than Teaching English or Working Holiday visa because as 34 yo man who is from non english speaking country and is not rich there is very little possibilities and i honestly though it would be imposible but person should never stop reaching for his dream right?
A dream stays a dream only if you stop going for it!
I absolutely cannot thank you enough for this video. I plan on taking a working holiday for a year in Japan, and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how I would go about trying to live in Japan permanently if I decided I wanted to continue living in Japan. Then, I saw the part of your video on the self sponsor visa and lost my mind. I'm already working freelance as a video editor earning over 2mil yen per year. Obviously, I'm going to need to do more research into it to figure out if it will work for me, but having those two pre-requisites down already has me very excited for my possible future in Japan!
Edit: I do have a follow-up question based off some of the research I've done. In the places that I've looked for information on this visa, they seem to pretty heavily imply that the main company I freelance for has to be Japanese, but the company I mainly work for is American. Whilst they don't outright say that is the case, they certainly imply it by saying that the company has to stamp their inkan on one of the letters. I just wanted to know if I would be safe to go down this route even with my main client being American?
Awesome!
I did my working holiday visa and paid tax on all earnings, and the work I did during it was as a freelancer with only foreign (to Japan) clients. I recommend, along with an immigration lawyer, to figure out a plan where you can make a Japanese some proprietorship, using the lawyer as sort of a guarantor, and apply for the self sponsored business visa at the same time. This is what I did, but many years ago so some things might have changed.
You could also try to get an on-site job editing for a Japanese company during the working holiday and try to get a full time contract with them as a spring board into residency, as many people do with teaching english. Once you got a business visa sponsored by them, it's easy to make the sole proprietorship and pivot into a self sponsored one. But going directly from working holiday to self sponsored business visa is doable, but hard. So I completely recommend hiring an immigration lawyer for it! Best of luck!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Thanks ahead of time, that really means a lot! I'm looking forward to seeing what you manage to figure out!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel I really appreciate all your help with researching and writing out that information for me, it's helped a lot!
I think my plan now is to try and get in touch with an immigration lawyer before I go to Japan on the working holiday to get the knowledge of everything I'll need to do during that holiday to put myself in the best position, hopefully without having to take on extra work since my current client is already a 40 hour work week on average.
Luckily I do have the added advantage of the client I work for being the owner of an indie 3D anime animation studio with plans to set up a studio in Japan over the next year or two, so if that works out I imagine he should be able to grant me anything I need in terms of sponsorship through that business.
Thanks once again for the help!
Think I will give this a try. No degree, non-English-speaking (but good) passport, and over 65. Lived in Japan (for 3 years) in the early 1970s, been back a few times. OK in Japanese back then.
I traveled to Japan for the first time 2 months ago. It was very cool, and I'm interested in working there for a year or two to see if I can stand the paperwork and regulations. I have no degree, but I've been working 6 years since I graduated high school. I'm well on my way to becoming an engineer. I'm considering applying as a civilian engineer in the US army in Japan, but I want to reach N2 and focus on building my finances first. I'm going to take the N3 exam this December. Depending on how my career and finances go, I might hit N1 before I try to work in Japan. Until then, I'll probably just travel to Japan as a yearly vacation.
Smart way to do it!
W content. thanks a lot bro!
I did a working holiday visa in Japan back in 2007. I met my wife at the English conversation company we both worked at.
From my experience, 1.5 to 2 years is generally the time it takes for people to know if living and working in Japan is right for them.
I have friends that still live and work in Japan now since 2007.
Like myself, I also know people that realised that after 2 years they were no longer interested in living/working in Japan.
Some of my friends knew they didn't want to stay but still stayed for a few more years before they found a different job back home / other countries.
In my case, I had enough teaching conversational English at my private company. I couldn't do that now that I'm 35 with a family to support.
My wife and I are fairly happy working in my home country. We have more opportunities here than if we stayed in Japan.
I completely agree that around 2 years of living and working in the country will give you plenty of experience to decide if you want to keep staying or not. One small thing I've noticed after 8 years is that as my Japanese improved, my social interactions and general joy of staying improved as well!
All in all, it's good to give a place a decent chance, which some people don't! Too many people struggle with the language and proper integration (as well as not knowing more about the culture besides anime and video games) which unfortunately ends with people giving up and leaving 3-6 months in.
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Absolutely agree!
Another thing as well that we had discussed was where we would raise kids.
We considered living in Japan, but ultimately decided to raise them in my home of Australia, because we wanted them to be able to freely express themselves.
Maybe once they've finished school and are are on their own we might consider living in Japan.
it says on a working visa you can’t apply if you’ve had one in the past - if the maximum tenure is 12 months how would we be able to stay for 1.5 / 2 years to find out? :)
@@LukeE94 I’m from Australia so our WHV were 18months instead of the 12 months offered to other countries.
In the case of working visas, I’m not entirely sure if they are issued in 12 months periods, so you are able to extend them provided an employer is happy to sponsor your visa.
My original comment was more in relation to people having work visas instead of WHV.
great video, very helpful. i thought English teaching was basically the only path there. i do wanna teach english in japan tho, cuz im fluent in japanese and english and always wanted to see what if its like anime. but this a good back up
I worked in a host club, as a Norwegian/English teacher, yakuza paper company, mountain guide and furniture flipper.. the sky is the limit being a white farang gaijin in Japan-land!
😂😂😂
Host club??? What was that like?
I wish I was White like you🤍 🥺😢
Another great video, thanks! This has become my favorite new channel. It's refreshing to hear honest and real reports of how things are out there. Fucking honestly funny too! And keep the rants coming.
Thank you so much for the very kind words! Appreciate ya!
私は海外で仕事をしたことがないから分からないけど、色々と大変だよね😢
真面目に頑張ってるあなたを見ると応援したくなる。
あなたが教えている生徒には変な子とか居たかもしれないけど、絶対にみんな感謝している思う！
素敵な動画をありがとうございます。
(英語じゃなくてごめんなさい)
難しいだろう！日本が好きな人はたくさんいるので頑張っていますが. ありがとうございますよ！英語なしは全然大丈夫やん！
Don't forget you don't need a TEFL certificate to get on the JET programme, as the programme has little connection to teaching.
Im curious about the self sponsorship one. Could you make a video going into more detail? Thank you!
holy shit the sound bite for australia was perfect
I'm not doing anymore since salaries are ridiculously low for teachers so I've decided to work in municipal office as a interpreter and to be honest they payin almost 3 times more than teachers. In my opinion best choice is Toeic ( 800 or 850) than you will find interpreter jobs around 350000 400000yen which is quite good
Awesome! Interpreting is indeed a way to go!
Man just came across your video… had me laughing, very informative, I’ve been In Japan for 7 years Married to a Japanese woman, been an English Teacher for way Toooo long! If it wasn’t for them Pesky kids my life. Would be like a holiday in Hawaii!
Got yourself a new subscriber
New subscriber. I’m 38 this year and dream of coming to Japan. I have kids and want to wait until they are a little older before bringing them, but I work for an international company and we have offices in Tokyo. It’s something I hope to rotate through eventually.
Thanks for the view and sub! To have the opportunity to maybe work at their JP offices some day sounds amazing!
In the meantime, I’m studying the language and grammar to help improve my chances.
wow I didn't know about self sponsor visa, this sounds awesome! I thought freelancers have to do business manager visa
I came to Japan on a working holiday visa 10 years ago and have not left since. Never taught English and never will. 10 years later still just absolutely going with the flow living here. Never gets dull
what was you're work visa for then? if not for teaching or IT? That seems to be all there is to do? I know you weren't doing ski resorts when you first came here, unless you had a long term Visa>
Well I was working ski resort in winter and during the summer I was working as a guide in Okinawa. In the summer I met my now wife. After my working holiday visa left to go south east Asia and came back as a tourist and as a British I can get 6 month tourist visa then I change to spouse visa after that
@@mountainswell appreciate the reply , work visa for guide a ski resort nice. Wait a 6 month tourist visa a Brit? I'm American and can only get 3? how did you pull that off? Spousal visa
@@SakeJoe Actually there is a special visa for Ski Instructors at Ski resorts due tot the need for foreign workers. Easy visa to get and dont need a degree. Just need Ski Instructors certificate. Yeh British people can get 3 month tourist visa and can extend another 3 month in country, very easy to do. I guess each nationality has different deals. Yeh i got married to Japanese a few years later and am currently on Spouse visa. Applying for Permanent Residency this year
@@SakeJoe Also..... I been doing Ski seasons my whole 10 years in Japan, thats how i make my money. Last few years i stopped working to concentrate on my own business during the winter
As a qualified native teacher (how we gaijin generally get referred to these days in Japan, rather than the old “foreign teacher”), I took a step down in pay and a few steps up in workload to come from my high school English teacher post in Canada to an Eikawa in Japan. 260, 000 a month and a subsidized apartment.
But the tax was less and there was more time to gather private lessons.
Now it’s 25 years later and the pay has gone down, and the Eikawa industry has shrunk substantially.
Tax has gone way up and the yen is worth much less.
Private lessons have dried up or people aren’t willing to pay $50 an hour for one.
I would NEVER recommend anyone come to Japan to teach English. Unless…. It’s for a year or two and you don’t desperately need the money and you want to travel in your time off. Then…. It might work for you
True! Unless you have a passion for teaching, an ALT or eikawa job will function as a stepping stone into residency which you then pivot into either IT, scouting or localization. And if you really want to teach as a career, going for a university position would be the main thing.
I've known many native teachers the years I've lived here, and most quit after a year to live somewhere else. It is what it is!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel about the stepping up part, point taken! it would be a good stepping stone. I am a tenured university teacher with 21 years experience and it's okay. the pension and retirement package is pathetic. but the independence and creative control is decent. And I agree with you 100%--I have known many native teachers who come and leave. Perhaps the majority. Most because of the passive discrimination and pressurised society I would think.
There's also the startup visa too. You could make a video about that!
Good suggestion! There's also a new digital nomad visa that came out after I made the video!
Thanks for the info bro.
How about as a foreigner, Any agents/companies willing to help you find a place to stay for a 1 year holiday visa?
Foreigner friendly rental real estate agents can definitely help you. I found my first place for my wh visa on my own, but some places might have a minimum of 2 years contract so be careful!
So gutted I didn't do the the holiday Visa when I was younger. Lucky enough to have visited 5 times now but I would like to try live there but I am knocking on 38 now. maybe just stick with the holidays
It's so weird that there's a limit for the working holiday!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel couldn't afford to get to Japan until my late 20s. Still be a dream but I don't have a university education and work in oil and gas in Scotland so no transferrable skills when you've worked your way up a ladder. I live in hope 😂 I always feel at peace in Japan and it is my happy place.
I'd like to live in Japan for one year at least. I am a Canadian expat living in Romania.
“Hello Work”is not a company but a govt. agency.
Well Stewart, looks like I have to pull out the 'English is not my first language' card on that one dawg
Been living in Japan 14 years with no college degree basic Japanese language level. It's hard. It's expensive. It's stressful. English teaching is low pay and has its challenges.
Hey dude, I can't find the self sponser visa you are talking about? When I google it there is many articles saying that such a visa doesn't exist. Where do I apply and what is the name please?
It's basically a nickname for the visa. The way most people do it is to do the working holiday visa first and while on the working holiday you work your own freelance online job as usual and establish a sole proprietorship in Japan. Self sponsorship of a work visa requires you to have minimum ¥250k per month. I've seen that there are some visa sponsor agencies who can sponsor your work visa for a fee, but I don't know if it's in a gray area in the eyes of immigration.
jobs.guidable.co/en/articles/work-life-in-japan/self-sponsored-japanese-visa-how-to-sponsor-your-visa-if-you-work-freelance-or-part-time
Best of luck my dude
Working holiday won’t do me any good then as I’m 35 soon… I’m gonna visit for first time next spring, and then maybe one day I’ll move there. Maybe even going to consider a Japanese language course as a way in.😂 also best way to help me learn as I’m doing fuck all at home.
There are multiple language schools that sponsor a student visa for you! Definitely recommend visiting first to get a feel for the country 🇯🇵
Interesting how this video has suddenly picked up interest on YT algorithm 7months after it wss made 😂. My question is what did you do for the "freelance" side of it. Im planning to go this year after working for a bit and selling my vehicles. Ive got places to stay at in Aichi snd was going to go do working holiday, get work from Hello Work or PESO. I've got my TESOL as well. So whats the jobs you did during the first year and second year on the self sponsored visa?
CZcams is indeed a long game, a video isn't really 'dead' before a year or two passes 😂
During working holiday i did my freelance work and double taxed, both Norway and Japan wanted their share. During the self sponsored I kept doing what I was doing but only had to tax to Japan cause of nice tax treaties lol
>250000/mo rent in Tokyo
Are you living in a luxury apartment in Minato? You can very easily live in a 1LDK for half that in central Tokyo.
You can also live in a 3LDK in the inaka of Saga for 55k
im from iceland and i did 1 year exchange to uni, 1 year holiday visa and 1 year work visa and now Im on my 2nd year of spouse visa lol. living in edogawa city(tokyo)
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I've wondered about the different visas and how they can work for foreigners. I did not realize the self-sponsored visa requirement is so low in terms of yen equivalent. Would having an OnlyFans count (lol)?
I would not call myself a freelancer, but I am a part-time university professor who teaches solely online - too old for JET/ALT, too old for a working holiday visa. I make a lot more than ¥2,000,000 a year. Is there an age limit on the self-sponsored visa?
I'm interested in knowing more about owning/renting property as a foreigner and what privileges (if any) that come with it. Especially in the inaka because fuck Tokyo.
Keep putting out the quality content, Emil! The channel keeps growing and I'm here for it.
Thank you so much for the support! An only fans, yes, anything that accrued more than 2m yen will suffice as long as it is through legal means and through a sole proprietorship or equivalent!
As far as I could tell, there is no age limit on a self sponsor visa (most likely because they do want to attract wealthy foreigners who want to retire here, which you can if you have a vast amount of money)
As for owning and renting property, money talks. But to purchase land in Japan, you must be a Japanese national or have a Japanese national you know buy it for you, and then you 'rent it' from them. It's a complicated process I haven't really looked at!
Very interesting info, @@JustAnotherJapanChannel. My husband and I keep talking about possibly retiring in Japan as it would make more sense (and probably would lead to better health outcomes...MURICA!), but there does not seem to be much info out there talking about retiring. That one sentence gave me more info than I've found anywhere else on CZcams. This is why I'm subbed and am here to spread the word about your channel. Thanks!
How about a wealth lazy visa? Life is short so fuck working.
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Much appreciated!
It's not entirely true anymore that you need to be from a native English speaking country. There are plenty of non-native "English" speakers teaching in Japan. Go to a homepage of a school and check their teacher profile page, if they have one. Probably not native English speakers. Also, having a degree, well, that also seems to not be strictly enforced. As long as you have a work permit, you're set.
While true that you can get a teaching gig as long as you look foreign and have passable English, those places have pretty shit salaries from what I've seen. Private eikawas with good salaries prefer natives more and more these days
Online English teachers from the Philippines is killing the market!!!! Way cheaper and with Japans current recession. 😭
Does the self-sponsoring option have any japanese language proficiency requirement?
Not that I remember. I knew 0 Japanese when I did mine!
You talked about how you won’t be positioned in Tokyo center, I’m glad about that, if I got put in a countryside town I’d be happy
I am an avid inaka (countryside) enjoyer and certified Tokyo hater, but I know most people who wanna come here will be like Tokyoooooo
for the self-sponsored visa is it 2M yen in profit or just sales? Just sales would be great!
2m yen per year in income!
0:30 So you need to have studied in a school from the US or UK? In the list you showed there it only says you need to have citizenship from an English speaking country and doesn't specify anything about the degree. I have dual citizenship (Romanian and American) and English is my native language, I am currently trying to get into a college here in Romania and move to Japan and become a teacher once I finish. Would my application be rejected just because I finished school in Romania even though I have US citizenship and speak natively? I also had an English exam in my last year of high school and got the highest possible grade all across, along with a certification, if that counts for anything. I'd really appreciate if anyone could give me some information about this.
Native English speaker in Japan's view for a visa means 12 years of schooling in English, in an English country (elementary school through high school). You can take the degree elsewhere as long as you complete the bachelor's. They use the "college degree as a minimum" to filter out who gets the visas, and most English teachers I've known here do not have a degree in pedagogy/teaching. You'll be fine with your plan if you wanna teach!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Thank you for replying!
With the self sponsored Visa, do we have to have a job in Japan and earning money or can all the money sustaining our life in 'japan come from over seas, out of Japan? Thanks.
The initial visa is easier to get if you have a 6-12 month contract with a Japanese client, but this can be bypassed by paying a service to be your 'guarantor' the first year. After the first year you only need to show income amount and taxed amount at renewal! (I'm no expert so I'm stating what worked for me)
does all of this applies if you know around a n4 level japanese? hi from Argentina :)
I knew zero Japanese when I first moved here! Having a good Japanese level before you move will help you get a job at a Japanese company much easier though!
0:58 you had me at “fat man in Japan” I also have a TEFL but wouldn’t mind not using it
I'm currently American with no degree, working holiday is simply not a thing for us so I have been limited to simply visiting periodically as a tourist. I do however have steady income as a freelancer from online work. Do you think that this self sponsored visa may work for me? I would be very interested in any resources you can provide, as I've been looking for a way in for several years.
Yeah unfortunately USA doesn't have working holiday for some reason, and the easiest route is to go into the military and be based in Okinawa/language school. If you have a salary over the monthly or yearly cutoff for selfsponsorship, look up work visa self sponsor.
If you're freelancing in IT or similar, and you can get a 1 year contract with a Japanese client / company, it becomes much easier.
any tips on how to find online work and or become a freelancer?
I know you mentioned the self sponsored visa works if you're a freelancer but does it also work if you have a remote job?
Yep, you only need to meet the threshold for yearly earnings, but the initial business visa may require you to have a Japanese client or a Japanese guarantor (which immigration lawyers can help with)
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Thanks so much for getting back to me!! This video was really helpful❤️
I'm not a freelancer but i have a company (my own company with other business partners) and i work fully remotely. Do you think i can get a Self Sponsor? I wonder what's the process to do it...
If you get some Japanese clients, that's the easiest way to get a self sponsored business visa here!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel thank you so much! Gonna try it out!
I'm reading about the self sponsor visa and it seems to specifically require contract work for Japanese companies. It doesn't work if your clients are based outside of Japan.
In my experience, if you Pivot from a WH or Study visa it's not necessarily required to have Japanese clients. But if you're moving for the first time and want to self sponsor a business visa you'd need either a guarantor (immigration lawyer) or one Japanese client with a 6 month contract, which can be easily done if you're a designer/linguist/programmer and other sought after freelance skillsets.
Ill be on a spousal visa but will start with english teaching and thrn suss out other options later
Spouse visa let's you do pretty much anything (within the confines of the law)
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Yeah so i hear, so taht makes it alot easier for me, and i will work on getting an N2 level of japanese to open more doors down the line. Also seems alot easier to start businesses in japan compared to where im from.
What did you do for work on the freelance visa?
Same as I'm doing right now, translations and web dev!
Where is the self sponsored visa on Japanese website? i can’t find it.
Self sponsor is basically a slang term for "business visa where you are your own guarantor". Check business visas
I have been researching this topic. For a number of years now and the self-sponsor visa has come up quite a bit. But it is my understanding that the self-sponsor visa doesn’t technically exist. When I was researching it years ago it seemed to be a continuation of your existing visa based on having multiple employers this time rather than one. For example last year you worked for a school, then you got 3 or 4 other part time jobs and they would continue your humanities visa you would have got from your main school but now it’s multiple schools so you need a self sponsor visa.
It is also my understanding that you continue the same visa that you was already on. So in your case it was a working holiday visa so maybe they just continued the conditions of your working holiday visa like some sort of extended working holiday?
As far as I am aware you can’t just come straight to Japan on a self sponsored visa right? You already have to have a Humanities, or instructor or in your case working holiday visa to self sponsor?
it doesn’t seem that you can simply have clients in Norway and use that to sponsor yourself in Japan is that right?
Self-sponsor visa is basically being able to 'vouch' for yourself, or being able to pay for your own business visa. That's where the minimum ¥200-250k criteria for it comes from.
You are right, you can't just up and sponsor your own visa before you move from your own country. Immigration will then be like "why can't you just be where you are to do your business?". The way around that is to either get a Japanese client with a 1 year contract for your freelancing business, move, then ensure you earn the minimum after the contract is done, so you can sponsor your own business visa.
They did not extend my working holiday visa, as it has a salary cap as well as a work cap. You can only work max 6 months out of the year on a WH visa. After that, an immigration lawyer can easily show you how to apply for a business visa where you are your own guarantor (or as people call it by slang - a self sponsor visa)
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel wow that's interesting. I didn't know you couldn't work mor than 6 months or that it was salary capped. i worked almost every day of mine. mind that was almost 20 years ago now.
I actually just heard about something called the strartup visa {next video i watched after this} but essentially if you have a reasonable business plan you can join a Japanese accelerator from outside the country and you'll be given up to 1 year (depending on the length of the accelerator) to make it viable business and transition to the business administrator visa.
How do I get a self sponcer visa? I am working in Japan but have got remote opportunity with over 20 million yen in my home country. Where do I begin?
First you'd need to establish a company/sole proprietorship in Japan. After that, I'd suggest finding an immigration lawyer since it'll be pretty easy to self sponsor a visa with ¥20m a year, since Japan definitely would love a piece of tax on that and an immigration lawyer can make it happen fairly quickly
Coming up to 60 so I’ll just have to be happy with visiting every year.
what is the self sponsor visa called specifically? I can't find any info on it.
I own rental properties that provide me with enough income to live remotely in Japan, would this be applicable under this type of visa?
Search the mofa site for a 'business visa' or 'work visa' . Usually, a busines or work visa gets 'sponsored' by your employer or through a long term (6m-1y) contract with a Japanese client. There are ways to sponsor this yourself or through and immigration lawyer (kind of a gray area where the lawyer will 'sponsor' you).
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel copy that, thank you for the info boss. liked and subbed
I really found the channel for me as a norwegian without a college degree 😂😂
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I want to live there for a little too but I'm not giving up my passport.
It actually strange that the US is not on the list for working holiday since we actually use to own part of Japan. 13,200+/- usd is actually really low per year it would be challenging not to make that much a year. Do you need a sponsor for that visa or is just show them your tax return for 2 years ?
USA is not on the working holiday list because it is a reciprocal visa and as far as I know, USA don't offer a working holiday scheme to the Japanese.
2m yen per year is relatively low, and on the lower end. If you state that you want to live in a big city like Tokyo, they might require more since the cost of living is higher.
Self sponsor visa works if you can show 2 years of income from a remote position / freelance and that you expect steady work of the same level after moving, preferably contracts with clients showing deadlines throughout the first year
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Also where is the livestream of Shibuya Halloween like every other Jtuber did they run out material for your costume ;) Grats on 1k when you get it. Thanks very useful video
I'm 25 turning 26 this year and I'm pursuing a degree in ba english is it possible to move in japan between the age of 29 to 30 years
No problem at all, and if you have a BA in English you'll easily be able to get a job that sorts your work visa for you
(we chatted on Insta) Really...! Self sponsored visa? I told you I work for a company with offices in Japan... but as a contractor. Hmmmm, interesting. I'm now thinking more and more as I have WAY more than the required amount to stay there. ❤ Awesome video as always
Hell yeah! Many people don't know that the self sponsor visa exists so I'm happy to share the info!
What if I want to open my own language school in Japan, "how to talk like a real American" and everything that implies
You can join the ranks of the many private schools here! They only teach American English which is why they prefer Americans / Canadians😂
I have a bachelor in IT field do i have a chance to work and live in japan?
Absolutely. If you use a recruitment agency like Skillhouse they'll find you an IT job that also sponsors your visa!
Two million yen? Damn man, what's that, like 100,000 dollars a year? I assume it's a lot. Lemme check the exchange rate real quick--
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Holy shit! In USD that's well below the poverty line!
It is well below average, especially now that the yen is very weak! Easy enough to meet that threshold!
Damn missed the window if I had known that was a thing I’d have moved there 10 years ago.
When did you meet your missus? In 2019 when I studied in Spain and went to Japan for a week Japanese girls were really into me (both in Spain and in Japan) but after the pandemic i returned and after 2 years here it seems they have unfortunately become a lot more like western women in the dating scene.. I think a lot of them gave tinder a chance during quarantine and were overwhelmed by the numbers.. they used to make me feel like a western woman with how direct and sweet they were with me and now I just feel like they treat me as a number
I got lucky years ago and I'm so glad I don't have to be in the dating game anymore 😂
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel yeah, exactly. The main goal for most men is to not be at the mercy of the current rules of the dating game anymore
Please make a video on how to become a manga artist, if possible where to learn manga creation with cheap course fees and how to find a lady mangaka and marry her 🙂
You're not fat. You're just cheerfully chunky 😅
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QUESTION;
My wife of 20 years is Japanese...
So does any of this matter for an American? We want to move together to Japan...
I appreciate your response and videos!! ありがとう
If your wife is a Japanese national you could pretty easily apply for a spouse visa, but she would need to have some proof of taxed income in Japan to be your guarantor!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel thanks but not sure that makes sense, because how can she have an income in Japan if we are moving there, exactly??(cant have worked there if you are still in America)...or am I missing something? Thanks again!
Fuck. I just turned 29 last week.
Damn... idk if im just blind but i tired looking it up... i dont think America is eligible for the work visa 18-30 😢
Unfortunately, working holiday visa is not issued to US citizens!
@JustAnotherJapanChannel damn that sucks but I kinda understand 😔
But damn my dad was born in Mexico, so if I couldn't get in from America, I was kinda hoping maybe I could get some Mexico citizenship to weasel my way in but that road was blocked too 😅
That self sponsored visa is my goal now. As an artist I have no right being a teacher
Go for it!
Curious about westerners retiring in Japan.
Unfortunately I don't know too much about it, other than that it is possible if you got a lot of funds!
This video has some nice information, but I feel like the whole takeaway is just "marry a Japanese person," for living in Japan long-term. As nice as that sounds, there's gotta be more to do to stay longer. Otherwise, from the information presented here, one could only work a year IF approved for working holiday visa.
That was not the intention, I was more trying to let people know that you can self sponsor a work visa to live in Japan if you freelance (which many people are after the pandemic to be fair)!
I was an English teacher in Korea until i burnt out 4 years later, i returned to america and its been a month and I already miss living in Asia
Thinking about either trying Japan 🤔 or doing Korea again
Thanks for the info 👍
Thanks for watching! Asia sure has its vibe, I miss Japan every time I visit my home country
@JustAnotherJapanChannel yah and the West has gotten too expensive even tokyo and seoul apartments are cheaper. And of course Asia is its own vibe!
What about cooking or chef training?
If you're hired at a place as a chef, they sponsor your business visa. They have some types of student visas for cooking schools too though
@JustAnotherJapanChannel might wanna talk to you personally. I wanna learn how to cook Japanese food. I don't know the language. Also other hurdles
Hold up, you can self-sponsor with income you're earning outside of Japan? I'm a freelancer here but I am not self sponsored. After another year I should be swapping visas it seems
It's basically a business visa (work visa) where you function as your own guarantor. Very easy to do once you're in
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel So basically as long as you can prove you are over that income threshold you can self sponsor instead of relying on a company, regardless of where that money is coming from (even overseas jobs). Very useful info man, thanks!
I can't apply for any of these because I'm 51 years old and American. I can sustain myself financially no problem. I'm in Tokyo now for another month on a 3 month tourist visa but want to live here and freelance. So what can I do? too old to apply for any of these visa's
You can sponsor your own visa at any age, look into the various work visas!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel appreciate the reply. buy no such thing as a "self sponsor" visa only work.
Ohmygod, I think I can sponsor my own visa... but what happens if you don't end up earning about the same once you're in Japan?
You'd have to report your taxes and income to immigration every renewal, but as long as the total equals the threshold for the year, it doesn't matter if you had a few low income months!
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel thank you. I'll keep looking into it
Problem for me I'm a blue collar worker. Only use my laptop for watching CZcams
Dang I turn 32 this year- guess I can't teach on the working Visa 😅
Working holiday is unfortunately off the table then, but you can still get a work visa if you find a sponsor!
Guys can someone help me?
My case is that I have Russian citizenship, I live in Turkey, I’m 19 years old, no degree, not much money
I’m trying to get as much money as I can and figure out how to move there more easily without much struggle
Hope someone can help you cause I am not equipped to even give advice on such a situation 😂
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel nah man I’m fucked up 🥲
Self sponsor visa... Isn't something that actually exists though. The information here is a bit misleading. You can "self-sponsor" yourself if you work freelance for multiple clients in Japan and can prove you make enough money to live on, but you still will need one of the companys you work freelance for to act as your sponsor. There's no actual visa category of "self sponsored", it's just a regular working visa with more steps, basically. Also you def need to be in Japan already to pull this off.
I sponsored my own visa after doing a working holiday, and I had to prove freelance income over 200k yen per month for over two years. You are correct in that a self sponsor visa is a normal working visa, but you will be your own guarantor.
You don't have to have Japanese clients, although it helps your application. I had European clients when I got mine, so I wouldn't necessarily say any of my info is misleading. Your own company, which you should have in the case you are successfully freelancing, will be the guarantor.
when the non-native speaker is better at English than the majority of your countrmen (in England ffs lol).
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4:16 HELLO WORK IS REAL?! I THOUGHT IT WAS A MADE UP COMPANY THAT RGG MADE UP FOR YAKUZA
That’s a cool idea , the SELF SPONSOR visa, I wasn’t aware of that. I also had not done any research at all on the subject and never heard of people listing Japan as a digital nomad location. Maybe some did mention, but it was not on my radar. 2 million Yen is approx $12,000 or thereabouts…. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm thnx for the info
A digital nomad visa also just dropped recently, so that is also something to look into 🇯🇵
And if you just had the money to live without needing to work?
Would they accept you buying a house and moving there? You wouldn't be doing anything productive, but you would be spending your money on the country. Would they accept?
I do believe there is a 'retirement' visa that allows everything, but you'd have to be pretty rich to get it
@@JustAnotherJapanChannel Well, time to test my luck on the lotto.