How do you plan to being able to move to Japan?
 

Okey I know that the Title is a little messy but I'm tired right now :)
Well I know that at least a couple of the people in this forum would like to move to Japan sooner or later. I do anyways!

But what is your gameplan? It's crucial to have one because wishing about it sure won't get you there.

I'm currently an University student and a new business owner. My plan revolves around starting another business, probably next year. And let that business grow for some time and after that hopefully I will be able to also expand at least some of the business to Japan. And eventually I would like to sponsor myself for a Visa. Well this is a very rough plan.
But anyways, what about you guys. Have you actually thought about how you will make it happend?

hi !

i just know that i want to go to japan, but i don't know how !

its just my wish !

there is many years that im thinking about japan, and i wish some day i get rich and then i can come and enjoy my remaining life ... in japan... in peace...

also i verrrry deeply Love Japanese Language and i crazy about listening Japanese speaking... and im trying to learn it but its very hard !!!

after 2years training. now i know this sentences :

konichiwa, kombanwa, ohayo, itidakimas, tadaima, sayonara, moshi moshi, daijobo deska, wakatta,

:o

i guess i talked to much :p

I am currently in college, & plan on university next year, for 2 years. I am studying IT. I hope either to help teaching English in Japan, or in case that goes belly up, I plan on going for N2 in the Japanese Proficiency Test, & work in IT in Japan :D

Well, I'll be turning in my application to the JET program this month so that will probably be the way I'll get to see Japan. I doubt I'll get the job, much less the interview, but I figured I'd try anyways.

Other than the JET program or some stable teaching gig, I don't think I'll even bother going there at my own expense since I don't really intend to live there. I'm content with being able to learn about the country from a distance lol.

My money will be better spent helping me move to a country I know I want to live in.

save up money, go to language school, try to find a part time job asap

my simple plan lol

I came here without being able to speak any Japanese at all.

Once you get here you learn fast if you put yourself in the right situations.

You hardly need the language for work if you're teaching, and it's not like anyone ever needs to talk to pay for food or rent etc...

It would have taken me about 5 times longer at home to get to the level I am at now...

At this point, with my circumstances being the way they are, the only way I'd move there is if I won the lottery.... It "could" happen....:D

If you put a wish on that, don't forget, wish to win the big prize. My wish to win came true, but I won 3 euro, and I paid 5 euro for that ticket. :D

I made the mistake of giving up my Japanese passport.

I'll go there with a "Child of a Japanese National" visa one day to fulfill my dream of working at a Yoshinoya franchise.

You don't need to win the lottery or be rich to move to and live in Japan. Many of the foreigners I know living here certainly don't have much money.

To move to Japan you need only a couple of things; a visa, and a plane ticket. The visa can be a WHV, SHIS/work visa, or spouse visa, any of the three will at least get you in the door. Work is not hard to find, and is likely easier to find in Japan than in most other countries at the moment.

Getting the visa can be tricky, but where there is a will there is a way.

As for the plane ticket, you can earn enough to buy one by working at McDonald's for a couple of months.

When I was planning to I've to Japan the first thing I did was to find an employer. Once that was taken care of it was easy to get a visa. During the interview and paperwork processes I worked hard at my job in America and save my money. When it was time for me to go, I had enough money for a ticket and month-to-month expenses until I began getting paid from my Japanese employer.

The process was not exactly easy, but I wasn't rich, and I certainly didn't have to win the lottery. I wanted to move to Japan, so I did what I had to do to accomplish my desire.

The average salary here is about 300 euro /month, you need quite some time to gather the money for the ticket and a bit of extra for the life there until hired.

I plan on becoming a super manga artist, and hopefully by posting my work on Deviantart a famous manga-ka will let me become his apprentice.

if you're serious, good luck, that's a seriously competitive and tough industry to enter...

I have a student who is an artist for some tv show that I don't know, but he works his butt off and doesn't get much for it...

RealJames, how long have you lived there now？ I'm doing 2 years college year first. After having some insight of the Japanese Language, I'll then study at TUJ.
Thought I am not an Manga artist, I still intend to study Art/Music/Japanese.
「文を書き時は辞典は利用はなくて」本当の翻訳はなく だけど。。。
なん年ぐらい日本に住んでいますか？最初は２年くらい 大学に勉強しているので、もし日本語使う出来るなら日 本に行く事は私を考えます、次の大学院を勉強続くのは TUJです。

Be aware that at least from my country alot of working visas have an age limit of 30....if only Id have known! not that it wasnt fun.

But that doors closed to me now.

Plan ahead guys.

Maybe I should sign up for the lottery option now!

I've been here for two years, but from my experience how long a foreigner has been in Japan is a very poor indicator of how much he knows...

I have no foreigner friends here, in fact outside of the occasional skype with family, and this forum, I keep foreigners out of my life entirely. Even English is as infrequent as possible.
Many foreigners have a different experience here, they attach to others like them and form their own little bubble which is very difficult to join for any japanese people... and they live in miniature versions of wherever they come from. A lot like many Japanese people do when they visit other countries.

My 2 years has been intense, difficult, fun, and a huge learning experience.
Making friends in Japan is enormously difficult for a foreigner.
Adjusting to the culture is a lot more difficult here than in any other (of the 4) countries I've lived in.

It's beautiful and painful, in all ways. I've fallen for it though, in it's glory and sadness. I don't think I could leave.

Oh and if you're still reading: you need a bachelors to get a work visa, it's a req, a 2yr degree might not cut it.

TUJ is pretty crappy a lot of the time.

I'm just become interested in the area, Than what school do you prefer?
Your recommendation?
日本でその辺は興味になるそれだけ、じゃ何の学校法が いいのか？
お勧めは？

答えが早いねぇ～
Anyway, I do intend to get a BA, but why not reside in Japan after grasping a little bit of the Language. I'm going to learn Japanese from a School that's sponsored by the Embassy of Japan.

I'm just letting you know as a current student.

well I've heard Arcadia University has a Study Abroad program.