| Faelco said: Thanks for the feedback! I'm a french engineer and am currently planning a one-year trip to Japan starting nect October to improve my japanese (I already did an internship there a few years ago, but lost my ability to speak japanese pretty quickly...). I'll take a one-year visa too and would like to do small jobs (like waiter, it's hard to find engineering jobs without a good japanese level) there, obviously to gain some money but also in order to speak as much as I can. But I've read that the one-year "work holiday" visa can't be renewed there and that I will need to come back to France before going to Japan again... You got a job and a visa extension without that? And of course, I would love to have some advices about jobs, housing or other potential good/bad deal (we should avoid japanese girls? :( ), but I still have time for that ^^. Thanks again for the topic and your insight! |
Thank you for your contribution!
Yes, I know that feeling, it's so easy to forget a language if you don't exercise every day :( Don't worry though, your japanese knowledge is stored somewhere in your brain, when you are coming back here you will quickly regain what you knew!
What kind of engineer are you? You should definitely look for a job, I heard that engineers make good money here!
About the visa, who is going to sponsor you? Because even if you can't extend the working holiday visa you can ask for a new, proper working visa if a company is willing to sponsor you. In my case I had a one year student visa and after graduation I found a company that sponsored a new working visa. But, as I said, I wasn't actually allowed to look for a job after graduating, I was lucky ;)
About the girls, it's not that you should avoid them, but approach them with caution and a HUGE amount of patience. Dating a japanese girl is usually a long and expensive process and you can't never be sure about the outcome. Or maybe I've been VERY unlucky. But the reward is usually worth it, they are super hot! :)
