Bartending

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

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   **Bartending**

   Sup guys, I’ve been doing some research over the past couple days and from everything I’ve read it looks like moving to japan to be a bartender is not allowed on a working holiday visa. My question is if there is any way around this? I have a ton of experience making cocktails and in the industry in general so not sure if that helps. Let me know 🙏 Cheers

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2. > it looks like moving to japan to be a bartender is not allowed on a working holiday visa. My question is if there is any way around this?

   I mean, the working holiday restrictions are pretty cut and dry – [https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/w_holiday/index.html:](https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/w_holiday/index.html🙂

   >The working holiday participants are strictly prohibited from working at bars, cabarets, nightclubs, gambling establishments and other premises affecting public morals in Japan. If a participant works at such a place, he or she is deemed to violate Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and will face deportation except where he or she is deemed to be victims of human trafficking.

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   Now, if you had a job at a place that wasn’t a bar/cabaret/nightclub/etc but that did serve cocktails (like a restaurant), that is probably fine.

   I suppose if you were one of the more performance oriented type of bartenders you could probably get an entertainer visa. You’d probably have to have won a few large scale competitions though to convince immigration that its a legit application.