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Will pursue this, TY.

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There's Saki production and a bunch of other stuff. It's Japan, it's not some alien place with jobs that are all weird and strange. Construction, brewing, welding, steel manufacturing, Starbucks, etc.. Jobs. I'm sure the only barrier to entry is being white and unfamiliar with the customs and culture. The rest is just work.

edit: sorry if that was a bit blunt. There's language to, but I think you'll find that less a barrier than their customs, (traditions).

For everything else, there's Google: http://www.daijob.com/en/

Catch octopuses and squids and you'll become a billionaire!

I know that, but different countries and regions have different industries that are either growing or shrinking at a given time, and I just wanted somewhat of a litmus test for the region. TY for the link.

Well Japan likely needs nuclear specialists, you know that one does not simply turn "off" a nuclear fission process. You could apply do work there specialising in decommissioning of reactors, speaking as an engineer in training myself I can see the long term need to decommission these 2nd and 3rd generation plants. Getting experience on the current trend in Germany and Japan now will get you into a position of experience when the US plants are in their decommission phase.

Well, my only part in this thread will be to warn you a bit about what to expect in Japan. I have a friend that has been working there for the past year for a big Japanese corp and I dont know if its a LatinAmerican/Japanese culture clash thing only or it pertains to a more western vs eastern mentality.

Thing is, Japan blows if you are used to do things a ... "certain way".

Japan, specially working culture, is very very formal, stiff and unyielding, and my friend, which can be described as a workhorse in the American continent is frowned upon as not working too hard there, not due to sheer output or performance, but due to several differences in how work is treated.

I coud rant on about how he describes to me how he wants to skullf**** some of his colleagues that frown on him getting about 15 to 30 mins earlier before OFFICIAL work hours, since everybody is at least 1 to 2 hours earlier than him. How he has to leave at a certain hour after the boss has left in order of hierarchy and the funny music that plays off his puter telling people that its time to leave since work has officially ended and the game of who leaves first (losing face) begins.

He has proceeded to describe me the "school like recess" employees are given during lunchtime, and how he is observed from afar by the directors and managers that sit apart from regular workers. The cultural clash in Kobe of how he has gotten hard stares and sometimes outcries from people at stores from pretending to give them money with his filthy unwashed foreigner hands instead of using the money tray next to the register.

How alienated he is by the fact of using 2 sets of japanese symbols, specially in media (he works in that department) and how advertising is focused on getting a second level of meaning on a product instead of a more frontal one (kinda hard to explain here but you will know what Im talking about if u lived in Japan)

He also proceeds to tell me about the utter worship of the state of being "GENKI" and how it affects how you are treated and how you should treat yourself when around others, including the utter morbid and monstrous like (to him and me anyway) of personal space and physical contact. I have lived in the US, I know what personal space is, it clashes wildly with the way northamericans think of it, and is awful to latinamericans.

Im not saying its a bad place, or that is wrong for you to go there, mostly a small warning regarding what to expect from the CULTURE more than the country.

This could be better understood regarding their way if you delve more into the Paris Syndrome , when classical Japanese people go almost Psychotic on chaotic places like Paris ... and for me, as a Latinamerican Paris was the peak of order and perfection in tiny details (I hate Paris) so In a sense my friend passed through a phase of "Kobe Syndrome" XD, since we come from the opposite spectrum.

Its a stiffling, suffocating society (to us, to my friend by being there and me by proxy for empathizing and having to listen to him more or less daily).

Social interactions can be akward, specially when dealing with women and its a topic I will avoid since its a bit offtopic.

Its not the work, nor the environment, its a wonderful looking place, everything fits and you are not supposed to change it, it is clean, extremely clean place, and you are not supposed to taint it.

Thats more or less the TLDR

Hope it helps ... I will ask my friend if he knows anyplace there where someone can employ you (just remember Japan is super expensive so a good salary to you might be barely above minimum wage"

Japan fascinated me. Then I stopped being a masochist.

I am sorry, but when I saw that you got lots of overtime, that is where alarm bells started to ring. I just don't see any sane supervisor encouraging overtime in the current economic situation. Before 2008 it might have worked. These days, not so much.

I think generally overtime pays time and a half. So if you make 10 dollars per hour. Overtime would pay 10+5=15 dollars per hour. Lots of overtime will get real expansive real quick for the company. That is why companies generally discourage overtime.