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the guy from mexico definitely gave a lot of useful information. like he really wanted to make sure that if it is your goal to be there that you dont waste your time so he put out resources.

The new american dream now is to have American standard salary in USD and work remotely somewhere else like Japan

I lived in Versailles for 10 years and the french guy in this video used to get my bus in the morning! Small world!

The most i like about Takashi is the huge space he gives to people without this stupid interruption as always on tv shows.

The software engineer from Mexico gave very good and precise advice 👏

All these people have so much character in the way they dress and what they all do is so fascinating.

Thanks for interviewing bro. It was a pleasure talking with you!

😮Amine of Japania channel?

21 years in Japan living in the countryside. The first 10 years working as an Eikaiwa Teacher, ¥230,000 /mo. rent ¥50,000 /mo. Next 5 years with position change, ¥300,000/mo. mortgage ¥45,000/mo. Past 6 years as an English school business owner. ¥800,000/mo. mortgage ¥45,000/mo.

This video helps me a lot ! Thank you for making a video with this great topic !

The community developer guy is actually doing very well considering his rent is $62! Could be a good option for people wanting to move to Japan.

The data scientist and the business owner are living the life. Man the things I would do in Japan if I had that money

Damn! Like we would say in French, what an illustre vidéo

more than 30 countries? woow. I wanted to hear his stories more. He seems chill.

JPY is so weak now that you’re basically stuck here if you’re being paid in JPY. Massively impacts any foreigner working here with financial dependents living abroad (e.g. a child in international school overseas). That’s a genuine stress and pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone else at the moment…

No way, « l’asperge de Japania » in Takashi’s interview 😮👀

Great topic, Takashi san!!!

I really agreed with what the first Canadian guy was saying, knowing Japanese is so crucial

as a German not complaining constantly, must take unimaginable willpower.

As always, nice video!! Thanks Takashii san!

Lots of solid, actionable tips in this one! Thanks, Takashi & interviewees! 👍

The Half Japanese and Trinidadian interviewee is so handsome! The key is to work for a foreign company in Japan! Get the benefits of being in Japan but without being subjected to its work culture lol

In Boston, Mass $2000 a month will get you a studio apt. in the city. A 1 bedroom will around $2,500 to 5k. Japan is cheap compared to what it was in the late 90's.

Incredible content! This really got me thinking about some related ideas I’ve been exploring lately.

With the weak yen, the only way is to stay permanently in Japan. Cuz if you’re planning to just go for a couple years, your salary will be worth nothing in your home country.

I am so proud of my Mexican countryman. You represented us well brother!!!!

What’s a wonderful series of interviews! Very helpful insights

I am surprised the amount of Canadian in Tokyo. I met a runner around Yoyogi Park at my last day in Tokyo. He saw my Bluejays caps and come to me "Nice Bluejays cap. I am from Toronto, Canada". That is quite cool experience tho.

As a French person, it's funny to see that Amine (the French guy) was the only one who didn't reveal his income. We really have a taboo about these things :) Thanks for the video Takashii!

Good video Takashi keep up the good work dude😎

Excellent interviews. Thanks for sharing

I just moved to Japan literally this past week and it was really great to hear others experiences and get an understanding of where my salary falls in the range of everyone’s work experience

I really appreciate the dedication in each video you post. To be successful one has to have multiple income streams and so on, also investors should understand the crossover between asset classes & liquidity flow, Judith Layton focuses on Multi-asset trading, a single strategy to manage risk, profit, and the code or the actual decision-making across multi-asset classes. Her skills set is top notch

With my wife together we make around 1M per month. Our monthly cost : Rent + gaz + electricity + water + insurance + phones plan + gym + internet : ~ 200000 ¥ Food : ~ 50000 ¥ Fun (restaurant , shopping) : ~ 60000¥ At the end we spend around 310000¥ That is an average because sometimes we spend more if we visit my wife’s family or if we travel in Japan . Honestly speaking, weak yen is not really an issue if you spend your money in Japan and don’t have any plan to travel abroad.

aw thanks very much for this video and also for introducing Preply 😍🙏🙏

Always good to see Amine from Japania!

Nice Video! I agree with the Mexican guy @18:11 💯

Thank you so much for all the interviewees and of course Takashi, giving us a lot of useful information and constructive advice!!😀🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

JAPANIAAAAAAAA AMIIIIIINE 🇫🇷

Yeah 🎉 to the Japanese-Caribbean 🇯🇵🇹🇹 person ❤ the ethnic combo 🤗

I think the theme here was that everyone really loves Japan since they were kids. Thank you, excellent constructive perspectives from everyone!

Some are really struggling with the concept of comparison. You cannot convert Yen to USD and complain they're being "underpaid" when you're matching those converted payments to US COL. They're getting paid relative to Japan. You're just reading them as a different currency to make sense of it, similar to translating languages. Doesn't mean it's a direct conversion and applicable to American living. The lifestyle of someone living off $200k in NYC is going to look different numerically in Tokyo, Japan. It doesn't mean that person is poor, struggling, or underpaid. According to Numbeo, average monthly cost for one person in Tokyo with a 1 bedroom apartment in city center is about $1,992. There was a dude pulling $6,600+ a month. He's living very comfortably in Japan and if he were in the States, these numbers would be adjusted and proportionate to the true USD of income and COL in the target city. So if his job paid $200k/year or $16,600+ per month in the States, the equivalent Japanese lifestyle he's enjoying would've looked more like $5,000+ for monthly expenses with a monthly income of $16,600+ for true USD numbers.

Respect to the interviewees whose native tongue isn't English but speak it fluently and also speak Japanese. People who are trilingual (or polyglots) are so impressive to me.

Great video, Takashi! 😊🙌🏼

Thank you Takasi, very interesting video, I am thinking to move to Japan.

I’m from Sasebo, Nagasaki. My rent is 160k yen but Navy pays for it, it’s 3LDK with one tatami room detached home.

Having the perspective of someone thats not from the firstvworld helps a lot, glad the guy from mexico was so informative

Very well edited video. Concise, to the point. Good job!

Great interviews!

"People listen to their music with headphones", I felt that deeply, living in Canada, there is no public space you can go to without a few low IQs swiping through tiktok without their headphones. Every time hear that I cry inside and think about Japan.

Awesome video as always Takashii.

It was cool to see that snop dog was down to be interviewed 😂

it's funny as hell to see japania in your videos ^^ お疲れ様です

Very nice video takashi!

Amazing video as always. Thank you.

Omg japaniaaaa in your video 😍😍 I’ll watch it for sure 😌

Nice intro! Very cool font, good job!

Thank you for this knowledgeable video❤

Fantastic video with nice diverse group of people from different demographics

Takashi needs a shampoo sponsor!

I can’t wait to go back to Japan

Good to hear the chainsaw man t-shirt, wearing gentleman is enjoying Japan, so much. Good taste in clothes too: suggestive but understated and smart.

Oh yes....I think the saying goes, make it in the west and spend it in the east.

Have you ever thought about doing longer videos like 45+ where you interview a lot of people like this but go more in-depth on a topic

Most of these foreigners have a high level of training and have other employment options and assets if Japanese yen gets too low. Compare that with Japanese who have same level of training but must exist on low wages, high cost of living, and demanding working conditions.

Living in Tokyo for over a year and looking for a job I decided to go back home because the average salary is just too low, as Alfred (Mexican guy) says LinkedIn (and some other sites, mostly headhunter bureaus) are good if you have plenty of working experience but you also need to be at least level N2. Also get official credentials (not only an official document that you speak at the level you claim), as experience itself will not be enough much of the time. I took a sabbatical so I can go back to my `old` job. I will come back in a few years but probably with my own company and making sure I have both an income in Yen and Euros. And it will be in software and maybe translations on the side (I speak 4 European languages, basic Japanese and some Chinese). If you want to be a translator, focus on Chinese and Korean as those are two markets that will give you more of a chance finding a job than English.

Hello from Bucharest, Romania/ Roumanie - a huge underrated city in Europe:)

So if understood correctly the German guy is some kind of anime pimp ? Lol

2nd Indian guy is Ajay Pandey makes very impressive videos on KZfaq ❤

When I lived in Japan first time in 1991, I worked for Nova. I was getting about 320k yen a month. My rent was 28000 yen. Good times. Went back on JET in 98 and salary was similar.

Thanks Takashi nice video and life for working foreighners. interesting

A word of advice from the future: make sure you don’t set a trap for your future self. There are reasons why you may decide to leave Japan, and when you do, you may struggle to adapt or find a job back in the West. I think the best compromise is probably working for a foreigner company in Japan, or be your own boss. Because most of the skills you learn in a Japanese company are most likely of no use outside Japan. If you want to specialize in something, it may be hard to compete with someone who has spent the same amount of years just working on that one thing. In the meantime, you may have learned lots of things, including Japanese language which takes a long time to master at a business level, or how to negotiate in Japanese, but those skills are pretty much useless outside Japan. Everything is possible, though. Just be aware of this. And these are a couple of reasons why you may decide to eventually leave Japan: family & health. If your parents and close relatives live at 14-hours flight distance, and you work for a company with few holidays that only lets you visit them once a year, you may be missing out from their lives and eventually you may want to be part of that again. Also, as you grow older you may struggle with the hay fever in Tokyo during spring and then the 3 months of hot and humid weather. When you are young, you have the energy. But as you grow older you may want to live in a place with milder weather. I’m Spanish. I’ve lived 12 years in Japan before I moved to the UK. I love Japanese language and Japanese culture, but as a software engineer in the UK, those are just hobbies now, not skills I need for my job. I’ve moved back to Europe so I can visit my family more often. Also, I feel healthier here: weather, allergies, working hours… I don’t regret living in Japan because it’s given me so much and it’s made me who I am today. And if I didn’t have a family, I would have probably stayed there forever. I’m just leaving this here as food for thought. 皆さん、頑張ってください！

Your interviews are really interesting.

I've been snapping up Japanese arts and crafts lately--the exchange rate is phenomenal! ...found a couple of beautiful Nambu tetsubin yesterday. Great.

Glad yo seen this video. Ty

I have a friend who has lived and worked in Japan for several years (since well before the pandemic). He's originally from Southern California. He makes enough to get buy living in Tokyo, but with the weakness of the Yen, the biggest difficulty is that it's really hard for him to visit family back in the USA.

Superr Takashii!!😘😘

The Indian software engineer is HANDSOME 😍 Nice topic this go around!!

Chainsaw man shirt is dope

Really like the camera TAKASHii used? Anyone have idea about camera or mic? Pls

I worked in japan during the early 90s looks like the pay hasn't increase much

Dope and insightful interviews.

Japania, Mipon and Around Akiba in a Single video : “ So this is what they called the multiverse”

The salary in Japan is just ridiculously low. There are options for foreigners working in Japan but for Japanese citizens, It seems like they are pretty much stuck.

I live in JP too and have a comfortable salary. Some of these guys have comfortable salary but are paying way too much for rent. Rent should be max 1:3 of your salary. 1:3 should go to all other expenses and 1:3 to save/invest especially if you are on the lower spectrum of salary..

The worst thing about the Japanese labour market is, they still value pure seniority over skills and productivity. I was offered a job as a Software Engineer at Nomura in Tokyo, for around 100K USD/year, in an international team (no need to be fluent in Japanese). Yes, they all say Tokyo is cheaper than London (exception made for a sizeable accommodation) yet...that's basically half of what a comparable Software Engineer would make in the City! Recruiters told me straight faced that, had they been looking for a more senior role, the salary would have easily been double that figure. Now, I worked in banking IT for almost two decades and I know those "senior roles" rarely contribute to an IT project and become involved almost exclusively in paper pushing and office politics. All in all I would say Japan is NOT a prime choice to have a good and lucrative career. For IT professionals, I think Singapore or Hong Kong are better.

Are ajay pandey ji ye kis line me aa gye ap 😂❤

As a foreigner who's lived in Japan for 4 years, it's really surprising to watch these videos and hear how low other foreigners salaries are. I'm a manager in an office job making 6.5 million yen a year and it's shocking to hear that other foreigners with specialized skills like IT and software dev are making less than me.

Amine on est là les français ! On ne dit jamais ce que l'ont gagne 😂

That Canadian community developer is a CIR for JET. How he described it. That’s def JET program. (He’s correct. That’s what the CIR role does). Source : me. I did it for 3 years.

they guy from mexico really helpfull, i can sense he's a nice senior software dev thanks for the insight

Damn that's pretty low pay. I work in a pretty basic job here in Sweden and make about $3000 a month, but of course i pay 34% tax on that so it ends up more like ~$1980 which is still more than most people in this video in the end. I live in a 3 room apartment which has a kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms, bathroom, wardrobe(its like a small room) and a balcony and pay $900 a month for it.

No way the US Data scientist guy complaining about money after earning over 6K dollars per month

I love the timing ❤

As someone in the beginning of his tech career i appeciate the guy so much for giving us those tips!

U.S. company paying me American dollars in Hiroshima, Japan as a mechanic. Company paid apartment, rental car, $7000 pay a month

What a chance to interview l'Illustre Amine de Japania

I follow all the social media guy's in this video 😂😂

nice, a lot of insights