I've been mulling around in my head the idea of someday starting a small business in Japan with my boyfriend, maybe-future-husband. In the little bit of research I've done, I've read that I would need a business/investor visa, and I would need to show that I had spent 5 million yen setting up the business or had 5 million yen in savings in order ( Read more... )

Hi guys, it's me again. :) A couple more questions ( Read more... )

 If you have the time, I'm just looking for a little help with postgrad studies and how it helped you ( Read more... )

Hi, my name is Maki I'm a 25 yrs old French-Canadian girl currently living in Quebec and planning to move to Japan on a Working Holiday visa around mid-May (I already have the visa ( Read more... )

Hello, I'm new to this community and I was wondering if anyone could share some information with men regarding working as a maid in Tokyo. I am a college student studying Japanese and (dead broke) I was told by a friend that some Maid Cafes like employing foreign girls and pay well ( Read more... )

I dont think I've come across this in previous posts, its seems that my husband and I are in a bit of a pickle ( Read more... )

Hey everyone, I've been watching this community for a long time, and only recently joined a few months ago when I found out I was moving to Japan with my boyfriend. So now I am about 4 days away from my move to Tokyo and I have a few questions I'm hoping the community can answer ( Read more... )

Hi! I'm Phylicia, I'm from the United States and I'm doing an exchange at Akita International University and will be here for about a year. I'll probably be coming here with a lot of random questions. Here are a few I have right now ( Read more... )

since most of you are english teachers here in japan, i was wondering if you could help me with some info ( Read more... )

Thanks for accepting my request to join the community. I guess I should introduce myself a bit - I'm currently attending the IUC program, an intensive Japanese language program, in Yokohama, and am hoping to live and work in Japan in the future, in some sort of art/history/culture career ( Read more... )