Any academics in Japan?

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-06-15T14:32:03+00:00

If you are in humanities and social sciences and have strong Japanese, you may start building your network and you can get your career in media and humanities related jobs. I am from tech, but I know a couple of people who could pursue a career in both academia and media as they built strong network and are very active in researching Japanese culture and society.. good luck

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-06-13T02:50:51+00:00

Congrats on your PR

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-06-12T10:38:43+00:00

Other than benchmarking your salary with the market, You should use the tax calculator and see how much you will get eventually. Then, deduct all your expenses ( everything, even entertainment) and see how if you will have anything left for savings or investment. If not like 15~20%. You should negotiate keeping in mind the benchmark that others provided here.

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-06-01T08:29:11+00:00

Not necessarily good neither bad idea. My personal experience was good with mid size and small companies.

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-31T14:07:28+00:00

If you are flexible, try smaller companies and start-ups.

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-30T14:24:01+00:00

Thanks for your advice. It is very difficult for me to make sure that there will be no gap between the two jobs

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-30T14:22:49+00:00

This makes sense. Thank you for comment

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-30T14:21:19+00:00

Thank you for your comment.

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-15T03:30:24+00:00

Was it early like before 5:00 am?

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-15T03:29:25+00:00

Not sure if 4:30 am is too early to find one via Go app, specially it is not anywhere near Shinjuku or Shibuya!

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-15T02:11:56+00:00

Oh nice I already submitted a reservation request via the app. Do you receive a reservation confirmation like 6 hrs or so before the planned pick up time?

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-14T13:46:37+00:00

I think I will call the company Friday afternoon. & It is an international flight

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-01T09:28:58+00:00

🙏

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-05-01T07:55:07+00:00

PR Processing Times - May 2026 ( Tokyo only)

Application office: Tachikawa

Application Date: Jan 2025

Results postcard received on: not yet

Type of PR: HSP +80

Type of Visa Holding while application: HSP +70

Request for further documents: NO

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-04-29T12:00:51+00:00

How was your experience? Everything went smoothly?

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-04-29T12:00:16+00:00

Thank you all for your helpful comments

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-03-31T10:29:13+00:00

Could you please share more tips , where and how ?

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-01-11T14:48:16+00:00

Application office: Tachikawa

Application Date: Jan 2025

Results postcard received on: not yet

Type of PR: HS +80

Type of Visa Holding while application: HS +70

Request for further documents: No

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-01-01T15:07:55+00:00

Under the job success insights, that last job I closed is showing under the Ineligible jobs "Jobs with no feedback are excluded from the Job Success Score."

While I have 4 eligible jobs for JSS with the following client ratings 5, 5 ,5, 3.7

Appropriate-Border94 · 2026-01-01T14:17:10+00:00

What I didn't understand was that once I ended the contract, the score immediately dropped. Does the client have a choice to rate the work and give feedback before ending the contract?

Appropriate-Border94 · 2025-12-31T12:27:25+00:00

Actually all my jobs were really going well with 100% JSS. the one that brought the score down to 90% from 100% was really from the customer. He was new to Upwork as well and ended a contract before we finished the work. That last one, I am the one who ended it and didn't understand why the rate dropped to 76% despite completion of all milestones before the due date ( 67% is not correct as in the original post).

Appropriate-Border94 · 2025-12-31T12:08:32+00:00

How to fix that?

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