How would one find a job hiring Americans?

I love Japan too❤️

Is there over-time work in Japan?

@@vijayvj5970 It depends, but as my experiment, hospitality industry like a electric shop or restaurants, are much more over time work, you could get extra salary tho.

Yet America keeps catering to other people. Maybe America needs to have the same attitude.

@@Frugal637 Fully support catering to America while in America. Just don't agree with going to a foreign country an acting like an arrogant ass.

Amen

Nice comment. I don't know why anyone expects to find English signs/subtitles/menus/websites/etc in a country where English is not an official language. Why not expect French or German, Spanish...

@@nikouai the thing is, they title their videos in English bro. Why? Lol

Tell this to English people living in Spain. Or almost any westerner in South and South East Asia who gets positively angry if a menu or something isn't in English. Its only for Japan that people get all "ooh...its their country, when in Rome" - you all don't even do it when you actually go to Rome!

​@@WitheredWithin It is called "General House Rules". KZfaq is generally regarded as an English platform (mainly). Title is to give you a general sense of what the video is about, they are not required to make an English video or provide English subtitles (It could be also because of their targeted audience or other reasons). The same goes for any other literature out there, you will find a heap load of topics written is different language.

YO what are you talking about. Cereal is super important. :P

Or the government being blantly xenophobic :)

Seems like you may not have been focusing on the full video. If you have any tattoos you will not be able to do most traditional things like bath houses and such. Individualism is frowned upon, many females who move there end up leaving due to the constant groping, up skirt shots, etc. The living spaces have been described as less than ideal from many. I heard lots of stories about how you should be ready to see very intense porn in hotels, sex shops and sometimes convenience stores. "The very obvious passive and casual racism, prejudice, discrimination, and xenophobia that no one realizes, points out, questions, or challenges was hard to deal with" - message from my friend who lived there for yrs. Sorry for responding with a novel, but there are many things that have made me unsure of moving there

You have to be a peasant to enjoy these cereals. Japanese only eat raw meat.

@@lilmochalovefox480 I'll take Japan's problems over U.S. Any day.

Its not just a black/white thing, east asian foreigners get the same biased too.

Don't kid yourself, by Western standards of the word racism Asians are definitely racist.

I agree

@@MsCwebb exactly. OP needs to stop rationalizing their bigotry.

Use migaku/refold. Do R-RTK with Anki.

Same age and about to do the same thing, I thank anime for the love i’ve gotten for Japanese culture. Lol

@@vinbladi. 100% naruto changed my perspective of japan ad got me interested in the cuture.

@@chanelb5325 One question, are you japanese yourself?

@@chanelb5325 Oh and do you have an app called discord? I have a few questions about studying abroad

Yea. As much as I like Japan I have considered Singapore as another option. It's kind of a tiny country though and might run out of things to do. Also the heat >_

I guess these crimes aren't announced. I don't hear of this often.

Same. People are telling me all the time to move to Canada but I have made my decision.

Ok that's good, but it's still good to be informed about the problems in the country. 👍 Hope you enjoy living there. :)

Hey! At around what age will you be moving to japan? I'm 14 and pretty confused as to why people choose to study abroad, lol and I don't really have an idea at all.

@@vinbladi. possibly they will move when they're 18/19 so they can start college abroad. as to why people chose to study abroad, maybe it's because they really like the country and want to do college there? or maybe because their countries education system is worse? there's tons of reasons why

The same time u commented this I was the same age

Normally I would recommend you try to get a job before coming. That's definitely the better option but currently because of covid19 it's not as realistic because with the borders closed the open positions for people not already in Japan is limited. As mentioned before you don't NEED to do JLPT but it's certainly not a bad thing to do. It would be easier to pass after living here as language immersion is the best way to learn. That said in normal circumstances I recommend option 2 but in current circumstances i recommend a mix of option 1 and 2. You will have a lot of fun here experiencing life as a student. Try to get into a language program at a university and you can make a lot of cool friends. Try to get a job as a priority but if you can't it's probably because of lack of hiring from covid19 so it might be a good option to apply for schools.

Dev in Japan Thank you for such an in depth response. I’m happy my plan is solid, I was starting to doubt it. Looking forward to your next video :)

@@LIMITLESS-cx2er No problem. Glad to be of help. :)

Because they want to keep a certain image of Japan and may downplay sex crimes in general.

Thanks for watching.

I speak conversational japanese. I can read and write Hiragana and around 1000 most commonly used Kanji. The thing about reading though, a lot of the Kanji characters have multiple readings so even if you learn them you will still see them in contexts that you don't understand until you learn it. Basically I would recommend learning hiragana/katakana before you come. When you come go to language exchanges to learn conversational japanese and study grammar on your own. Also learn like top 100 most commonly used kanji to start with. There's no rush to learn if you get a job that doesn't require any Japanese skill.

You don't need to know Japanese, there are tons of people living in Japan that don't know Japanese. Things will be easier if you know some level of Japanese.

Exactly!

You're welcome!

Hey it's a bit tricky to do that now given most people including myself are working from home. Maybe next year or if I catch some unlucky fellows that have to go to the office. :P

There is no best roadmap. Here's one idea. Develop something in various technologies such as making a web app using ReactJS+NodeJS, or make a mobile app using Android, Flutter, iOS. Make something you would use or someone you know would use. Then release this application. Learn from it. Use the experience as material to talk about in your interviews as well as something to put under projects section of resume. Then apply to companies using that technology. Startup is a good option as you can learn a lot at startups fast. Alternatively you could go to university for computer science or take a Coding Bootcamp.

Fair enough!

You can buy deodorant at every drugstore in Japan and many supermarkets have it.

I mean at least they actually do something sneaky instead of getting one way gate to hell, not trying to support crime

Believe me - Florida is on whooooole 'nother level.

As a floridian, my neighbors are willing to skin me alive if I step onto their yard, florida is way crazier

bro florida is a whole nother level. And there ain't mass shootings in japan thats for sure

I'm still in Japan. :)

I see :)

if u adopt me ill tell you😂

yeah!!! don't move to Japan if you want cinnamon toast chrunch for cereal! lol.

Nenkin is unreliable for sure given currently there are more people at retirement age then ever before and younger working population has dropped drastically. A lot of companies have Defined Contribution and it's a requirement for large companies to have this. This is basically an investment plan that you set up through the company investing in things like REITS, stocks, bonds. Some companies allow you to opt out and manage your own pension. I personally opt out and manage my own retirement savings using things like NISA to invest in growth stocks.

Dev in Japan - wow, thanks for the info! Really appreciate what you’re doing on KZfaq. (It’s all very fascinating!) Is reit a popular investment vehicle in Japan? Any idea why? Some reits are probably suffering due to the inevitable cancellation of the olympics.

@@Omikoshi78 REITS are not a good investment at the moment. Stocks are the best bet for aggressive growth if you are young.

Not Japanese stocks.

I mean subtitles themselves are not a problem but how are you going to connect it to legal streaming sources?

@@DevinJapan Who says we gonna watch it legal😏

Hey. You can interview for some companies remotely before moving to Japan. I know one of the viewers of this channel recently interviewed and got a job at PayPay all via online interviews. He is now planning on moving to Japan when borders open up.

@@DevinJapan thank you so much

Yep

LOL

Woah. Hope it smells good. lol

@@DevinJapan It does and works for 24hours +.

Only small percent of Asians have gene for body odor. They do have these body wipes for wiping sweat off the body for the hot summers. Some of them have deodorant but I don't think many people use them.

@@DevinJapan Really? I had no idea. That's pretty cool that you can be born without the gene for bo. Damn though, that's going to be hard cause I need deodorant. I lost tje genetic lottery haha.

@@MrWar2244 You can buy it from some import stores. Like national azabu in Hiroo area. Or on amazon i believe. I just stopped using it and 2 showers a day in the summer.

@@DevinJapan Ha this just cleared something up for me. I'm quite sensitive to smell, I'm probably part canine or something. And I have an Asian friend and we really get along but I'm always a bit uncomfortable around them - this could be why: they have no scent!

The world is big. Life is short. Explore when you can and try different places. :)

A common misconception is that many people who want to live in Japan want to reside there because they like anime (the american equivalent of so called disney movies). I can't speak for the people you've met but most people i've conversed with wish to move there to study, for business, for the culture etc. Eg. I wish to move there because my life goal is to be a diplomat, and Japan has some of the best poli sci courses and resources.

Singapore is a great place but it can't hold a candle to Japan either in technology or in quality of life. I have never met anyone in Japan who moved there because of anime.

@@jimbocho660 bruh have you seen Singapore. The technology is already leagues above everywhere else.

umm. . . Japan isn't only cities. . . there are suburbs and country side too. i don't really get your claim that you "can't be self sufficient" when obviously you can cook your own food there if you want too. . . Japan is a great place to visit and theres a lot of things to do and see and the food is great. Not everyone only cares about tech or whatever

Actually I recently found some in stores. When i first moved here they didn't have them but sometime in the last year or so they started popping up. Not everyone's sweat smells. It's genetic and asian genes usually do not have this smell.

Can you go to jail for having a knife?

@@DevinJapan ok make sense 😆 🤣 😂

I've lived here long enough. If you notice my channel talks about many things and this is geared towards people who haven't heard some of the negative things. It of course does not cover everything.

Also I'm pro-moving to Japan. Thats the whole point of the channel.

Someones hand getting burned at all is not laughable.

@@Abshire-jj9fk mentioning these individual crimes is pointless. That was my point. Homicide rate in Japan is about 0.3 per 100,000 people, while America's rate is 4.7 per 100,000 people.

@@gutoinfrance Oh okay that makes sense, thanks for telling me.