[vulgarshudder]

Child care certificate? I work in a elementry school and have friends who work at kindergardens, never heard of needing that.

From Hong Kong...well that's a sticky area. Was she taught in English through her education? Because that's what counts as fluent.

Does she know Mandarin? It's possible to get a job teaching Chinese...I'm pretty sure this would be mandarin though rather than cantonese.

Other ways to get a job in japan...well you're very limited as to what jobs you can be sponsered for, that's why the vast majority of people are english teachers cos it's one of the few jobs we can legally do (unless you have a japanese spouse).