General Guidance
Start from here. Check back often and regularly.
Japan Specific Guidance
- CFN Career Guide
- リクナビ 就活準備ガイド Career guidance for Japanese college students. Just use this page for your reference. No need to follow the tips listed here.
Finding Internships
How to
Japan-related Internships
- Sakae Japan Internship Program
- American Association of Teachers of Japanese Jobline: Internships
- Japan Society of Boston Internship Opportunities
- Kinew A startup company developing a pocketbook app. Their internships involve market research and are unpaid, remote, and flexible. Daily conversation-level Japanese is required. If interested, email @email
Work Exchange Programs (to gain experience of living in a foreign country–not necessarily in Japan and not necessarily in the field you want)
Japan-Related Job Search Engines
Others
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 is good to have when you apply for Japanese companies
- Boston Career Forum Job fair for English-Japanese bilinguals held in Boston in November
- Japan Teaching and Experience Program Teaching exchange program managed by the Japanese government
- Critical Language Scholarship Program and CLS Spark. Language study program in Japan sponsored by the Japanese government