I am actually very surprised that a BMW that wants to teach English in Japan does not understand what does native means for the job requirement for teaching English in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language

If you are a Malaysian, born and bred in Malaysia, that means you are non-native English speakers.

As much as I find it funny that you want to teach English but do not understand what native means, I do respect your burning passion and I believe it will help you to go far in your life, but please do learn on how to respect others as well, especially when you are the one asking question. That includes cases that you get some cynical or sarcastic answers along the way.

Best guide for working in Japan would be : http://www.gaijinpot.com/

Teaching English is out of question if you are not native speakers. Btw, Japanese have very strong "resistance" towards foreign workers. Not knowing your strength, my suggestion would be to save up money, go for a trip to Japan for around 2 weeks to 1 month, live the culture of the Japanese and then through that, figure out where you can fit in their regimented society.

I'm very sorry my good sir, from my understanding the context of your question was tied in with teaching English in Japan for non-native, which I have answered in one of my post. In which part due to the post quoted above that you are talking about "teaching job for non-native" instead of "teaching English job in Japan for non-native", I honestly do not know.

I believe from your emotional reply, you have branded everyone here is as useless and it is waste of your precious time. I strongly disagree with that, through this thread I have learn a lot from the very informative post from few of the awesome members of this thread. Again, I would like iterate my suggestion, do visit Japan, and learn from their society. There is a lot for us to learn from them
Yes, it is very much possible. As long you know the spots to do it, Japanese are naturally an expert on this topic.

http://www.kirainet.com/english/japanese-sleeping-10/

It will however give "gaijin" a bad name. So, I would recommend you try couch-surfing rather than sleeping on the streets, especially in the chilly-weather now.

The best part of Cyber Cafe is that they have unlimited free drinks. At most places, they charge for the shower use. Average cost would be between the range of 1500-2500 Yen.

Cool, no problemo. Now that you have calm down, I'm going to try to explain what tanoshi means from his reply.
For your info, tanoshi have stayed in Tokyo for quite awhile, so he did not meant that you will never get to Japan, instead the reply was about "your wishes same like mine when i was...BUT I bet you cant make it" was in regards to your post saying "I wish to gather Malaysians who stay at Japan". He tried that being very friendly with other Malaysians in Japan, but if wasn't much of a success due to the culture of Japanese society, where by they are overtly self-centered. I know a lot of my Malaysian friends who have stayed there for more than 1 year, most of them have adapted to the Japanese culture. So, it is a huge ambition to gather Malaysians in Japan, where even our embassy failed to do that
Btw, the term Japs is/was considered as an insult to the Japanese back then. I would politely use Japanese.

Please use Google for any definition of words that you are unsure, if that fails, then only you should ask here. Search for "gaijin" and "couch surfing" if you please.

I wonder why would anyone who are staying in Shinjuku Washington would be willing to sleep on the street. My recommendation is to downgrade your accomodation to a cheaper place, and use the extra cash to get a proper place to stay for the rest of your trip. I would recommend you to try out Ryokan, Capsul Hotel, and other type of accomodation as well.

Typically visa application is done within 3 months of travel date, it will only last 3 months from the approval/issuance date. (This is applicable for single entry visa)



http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/pr...e/validity.html

My suggestion, buy your tickets now. Visa application is actually very easy for most cases.

IMHO, it works the other way around, since you can only do your visa within 3 months before you departure date, ticket price would be exorbitant by then in most cases, as most airlines do promotion for early purchase only nowadays.

Thing that people do not know is that, if you application got rejected without strong reason (like being blacklisted in either Malaysia or Japanese institutions such as financial, telco and etc). Then, you can always reapply unlimitedly until your visa application is approved. This would typically be true if the reason your that application was rejected was because your documents is not convincing enough (like bank statement, company letter, and etc).
You do not need confirmed flight ticket to apply for your visa, and doing an itinerary for visa application should take only 10 minutes of your time. Typically, I make it as generic as a trip to Japan could be. If you think that going to embassy to send/receive the application by yourself as a hassle, then pay some travel agency to do that for you. I would rather get my visa earlier, then getting stuck at the airport for not being given visa on arrival, which means not being able to meet a friend in your case.

*btw, I would recommend to apply visa for holiday and transit, unless you don't have the financial proof to support your trip to Japan..
Technically that is not correct as there are actually a visa-exemption arrangements between the Malaysia and Japan.
Nevertheless, the word I would use here is that it is strongly recommended to apply for visa before arrival.


http://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/English/visit.html

This post has been edited by heterosapiens: Jun 2 2011, 09:53 PM