Work
Finding a job, contracts, and your rights
Changing Jobs
What changing employers means for each visa type, the 14-day notification, resignation etiquette and timing, and how job-hopping is read by Japanese employers.
Employment Contract
The items Japanese law requires employers to state in writing, contract types and their traps, and the red flags foreign workers should refuse to sign.
How to Find a Job in Japan
Realistic ways to get hired in Japan from overseas or from inside Japan — job sites, new-graduate hiring, recruiters, and what employers expect.
Japanese Resume
How Japan's two-document resume system works, what goes in each, the conventions that surprise foreigners, and when a Western CV is fine instead.
Job Interview
How Japanese job interviews actually run — the rounds, the etiquette that matters versus the myths, the standard questions, and how foreign candidates win or lose them.
Jobs With N2
Why N2 is the threshold Japanese employers actually hire at — the office jobs, salaries and visa upgrades it unlocks, and what N2 still doesn't get you.
Jobs With N4
What N4-level Japanese unlocks — the SSW fields, factory and hospitality work, how much these jobs pay, and the fastest ways to level up from here.
Jobs Without Japanese
A realistic map of English-only work in Japan — which industries genuinely hire without Japanese, what they pay, and the trade-offs nobody mentions.
Minimum Wage
Japan's prefecture-based minimum wage system — how rates are set, the range across regions, what counts toward the minimum, and what to do if you are paid below it.