Hi everyone, I just came back from Japan and I hope you can give me some useful input. A bit of a backstory: I am originally from Italy. I lived in Tokyo for a year and attended Gakushuin University as an exchange student. I graduated from my Italian university in 2003, but at the time it felt like visa opportunities weren’t easy to come by in a post 9/11 world.
Right now I live in the US, have American citizenship, and have been working the past fifteen years in law firms as legal assistant/paralegal (no Japanese-related jobs in my state). I finally visited Tokyo again at the beginning of October, and I loved it just as much. My Japanese was slowly coming back, and everyone was even nicer than I remember. My question is this: with an intermediate level of Japanese, a Bachelor’s Degree, an American passport and fifteen years of office experience, what are my options to find work in Japan? If I chose to get an additional accreditation/certificate here in America to enhance my skillset, what are my best options?
Sorry this is so long, I wanted to make sure to give you all the necessary details.
よろしくお願いします!
by Spiritual-Average407