Hello r/movingtojapan folks, I’m a 22 year old college student whose studying nursing in the United States. I decided that I’m not going to pursue medical school for now, and focus on getting my degree.
I’ve taken beginning Japanese courses that were offered at my school when I was finishing my general courses and didn’t know what I wanted to do.
I’m not the most tech savvy person, however,
I’m open to learning about IT. I could never study backend stuff or data, I know I’d burn out easily.
I thought about teaching English in Japan, or maybe being an Au Pair in Japan.
I’ve visited Japan before when I was 18 when I visited my brother in the Navy. I loved my time there. I’ve been wanting to make my way back since then. I have a passport, a clean record and my grades are a A-B average—I thought about studying abroad in Japan, but it would be challenging since Japan has a different curriculum for nursing specifically.
I haven’t done much research, so if you could let me know where I could find more information, that would be helpful.
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Nursing options will be limited by your need to know near-native Japanese at the university level and then studying for the Japanese nursing licensing test**s**.
Read the medical/doctor wiki and past posts:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/wiki/doctor
* https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/rp76l0/id_like_to_move_my_family_to_japan_in_the_future/
* https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/db40h8/wanting_to_move_to_japan/
*Bottom Line:*
You need to learn Japanese to a high university level and acquire the requisite medical terminology (with very difficult kanji)—Such an effort could be as difficult as attaining an Md. in the US.
>I thought about teaching English in Japan, or maybe being an Au Pair in Japan.
There is no “Au Pair” visa in Japan and the Working Holiday visa specifically excludes Americans.