Working Visa in Japan

You may want to try the JET program, a program funded by the Japanese government, that hires foreigners to teach English to Japanese middle school-high school students. It'll probably be easier to get a working visa that way, and I'm sure they'll be flexible with where you want to work. However, I think a bachelor's degree (in anything, as long as you went to college for four years) is required for the job.

There are simply two ways to get the visa: one is that try to get to know people in Japan who can help you to apply for it. You can just work for a few months for getting the visa if you don't like the job. Another way is that you can find jobs like native English teachers. As I have some friends in Japan, and some of them are teachers, they told me that the demand for native English speakers is quite high, and is not hard to find this kinda jobs. I'm from Hong Kong and actually I would like to teach English in Japan, because I like Japan and I'm majoring in English now. But my Japanese friends said it would be hard for me since i'm Chinese, but not native English speakers. Somehow maybe I can consider teaching Mandarin or Cantonese instead of English, haha. Hope my suggestions can help. =)

Japanese are more strict than Americans. Even if you will apply for tourist visa... you have to prepare a lot of papers... then they will give you 15 days pass only... lucky you if you get 90 days. unlike in US they give 33, 5, 10 years, multiple visa. In terms of work... it's hard because you have to really study their language. They do not know how to speak english... so there would be a language barrier... anyways, good luck!