Saturday, October 1, 2011

Can you live in japan if your an american citizen or do you need to get a passport or something


Can you live in japan if your an american citizen or do you need to get a passport or something?
I plan on going to live in japan and go to college there but I was just Wondering if I had to do anything to live there or go to college there I already know the language
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1 :
You need a passport and a visa for the duration of the time you plan to spend studying in Japan.
2 :
If you are a US citizen, you can enter Japan without a visa for 3 months - you get a tourist visa at the Japanese airport. If you want to stay in the country longer, you need to get a student visa or work visa. Until a few years ago, a lot of foreigners in Japan would get jobs as English teachers in order to get a work visa to stay in Japan long-term, but the Japanese government now requires a college degree to get a work visa as an English teacher. If you enroll in a Japanese university, they would probably get the student visa for you.
3 :
You'll have a hard time living in Japan if you don't go to college first, so college comes first. As an American citizen, you need a passport issued by the US government and a visa issued by the Japanese government. Getting a passport is no big deal. You go to the post office with a passport application, an ID, something that proves your US citizenship like a birth certificate, the $100 application fee, and two regulation size passport photos. A visa takes more effort, because you have to qualify for it. To go to college in Japan, you need a student visa. You get a student visa by getting accepted into a college. Then, all the necessary paperwork follows. After you're done with college, you can get a job, and you can get a work visa. You need a college degree to get a work visa, and your job needs to be directly related to your college major, which is why college is important and has to come first.
4 :
Best you stay at home.
5 :
You could get a student visa and go to college. You need a passport first. If your planning to live there you would need a working/resident visa which extreamly hard to get.
6 :
日本の大学では既に4月から新学期が始まっているのに行動が遅いんじゃないのか。入学試験は2月頃に終了してるよ。 パスポートも学生ビザも無しで日本に来れるなんて思うな、日本はアメリカの植民地じゃないぜ。
7 :
You can travel in Japan within 90days if you are American citizen with legal passport, returning air ticket and money enough to spend there. You can't live in Japan more than 90days unless you have a certain legal visa issued by Japan. If you try to go out of USA, to anywhere you have to have your own legal passport as ID. Going to Japan is no exception as commonsense. To go to college in Japan, you have to pass the exam and get certain its support letter to apply COE to get your visa before entering Japan. I think you'd have too many things to learn more than Japanese at first. Actually I don't think you already know Japanese anything much enough to pass Japanese college exam at all.
8 :
You might want to improve your English first. And it will cost about $80,000 to go to college there.





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