If you're living outside of Tokyo, your best bet of getting a job as an "uninvited guest" is going to be with a smaller firm wanting to export/import. In 2004, there are many mid-to-large sized firms reevaluating their foreign strategies and deciding to develop overseas markets for themselves. If you're lucky, you might wind up in a company that is...

At the start of 2003, DaiJob Inc., created a fully licensed recruiting joint venture in Hong Kong, with a partner there. The new company in Hong Kong is called DaiJob International and the joint venture with this company enables DaiJob here in Tokyo to take client requests for positions outside Japan, now meeting...

I frequently get e-mail from people who have recently decided with their Japanese spouse to return to Japan to live. Given that only 25% of Japanese live in and around Tokyo, there is a good chance that the spouse is from somewhere else. And given that the motivation of many returning Japanese is to be near their family again, the decision is...

I've received a lot of email from readers interested in doing an MBA either part-time or full-time in Japan. One, from a Mr. JY in Singapore, asked for more information about other MBA schools in Japan that run courses in English. One such school, well-known because it was the first US-style Business school in Japan, is...