Future nurse wanting to move to Japan with current partner

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **Future nurse wanting to move to Japan with current partner **

   Hello!
   A little about me; 32F, US citizen and my boyfriend is Japanese, here on a work visa.
   So I’m a nursing assistant rn and I am looking into moving up to LVN.
   I want to go to Japan with him.
   My issue is, I haven’t seen any job openings for nursing on an American base in Japan and I heard that you need to pass a Japanese nursing exam to be employed in Japan.
   I haven’t taken any Japanese language class yet. (I will start in September along with my nursing program).
   I know the English language teaching jobs need a BA of English and I don’t have that.

   I guess I need advice on;
   Changing careers to get a job in Japan as a foreigner since I can’t find any nursing jobs?

   Talk to him about coming back to the states (even tho I really want to leave)?

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2. There are a lot of posts about being a nurse in Japan here. In fact pretty sure I saw one just earlier. The info is laid out pretty well.

   As for a career change, it would be just as hard as it would be in your home country times like 50. Your only benefit would be living in Japan already but you don’t know Japanese and you have no other formal training so you wouldn’t really be giving companies a reason to hire you

   Edit: I also overlooked a major fact that you are not married and don’t appear to have a degree. So you really don’t have any visa options to go at the moment anyway outside of language school.