Advice for recent graduate - teaching English in Japan?
 

Hi, first of all, sorry if this has been asked already but I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction and tell me exactly how one gets started teaching English in Japan. I just graduated college and would like to get away for a while and this has been something I've wanted to do for a long time. I've searched through the different companies but I am confused because there are so many and don't know where to start. Can anyone provide me some more info please? Thank you!

There is so much information available here and elsewhere that I need to ask if you tried the search function. If so, please ask specific questions so we can address them. Be very clear. I suggest bullet point style. It will be easier for us to go line by line or offer a link to the answer.

Look into the JET Program if you haven't already. It's not a company, it's the Japanese government itself, and you team teach in the public schools. That's what I did, and IMO it's the best option, if you can get in.

As illegal as many of their methods are, many JET contracts have been replaced by dispatch companies (either haken or inaku). I work for just such a company and my job is exactly the same as that of my JET friends.

JET does have advantages and I concur it is the best option, but it often seems they sort through applicants with a method about as scientific as as lawn darts.