Long story short, I tried a teaching English job in Japan, didn't work.
Unfortunately, I've been forced to leave Japan now and want to try again, but under the premise of better job security and working towards a stable position in Japan.
The Highly Skilled Professional (HSP) Visa seems a viable route, I've got most of the way there for points, but after some research, I've noticed that there are no jobs in Japan attached with an HSP visa support. This makes me wonder, despite the existence of the visa, is it the case that no company, is going to sponsor that kind of Visa?
I don't have any connections to Japan, so I have to take the hard route in.
For a start, there's no way any English teaching job is going to qualify as a HSP. The minimum earn for HSP is 4 million yen and most English Teaching Jobs cap around 3 million, excluding those at higher educational institutions.
My findings seem to suggest that all companies/organizations in Japan, don't really offer permanent contracts. In fact, it seems a bit of a luxury. Instead, they offer trial periods of maybe 3 months, or a year contract before going onto the permanent employment or a capped contract period.
If you are requiring a sponsoring company*, would must be the case then, that it is the sponsoring company that decides what visa you'll have and therefore, it would not be in their interest to get you a HSP visa during that first trial period, am I right?
*I've noticed that most decent jobs in Japan are now asking that applicants are living in Japan. This is frustrating because it seems to be guided towards a future, where the only way to actually get a job in Japan, is to become an English teacher for a while and then find a secondary job.
Option 2 for me right now is to retrain in college, to get the right qualifications and build up experience in my home country, preferably a company that has dealings with Japan.
I'm interested to hear from people who have more experience. Maybe there are people here on HSP Visas?
by Substantial-Host2263
