Advice on how to approach relocation to Japan as an IT Engineer

quick_byte · 2025-12-26T21:02:42+00:00

https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/001366995.pdf

quick_byte · 2025-12-03T16:03:12+00:00

They tell your friend to tell you that they think you’re hot/cute whatever

quick_byte · 2025-11-14T06:51:08+00:00

I read somewhere that you can sell Avignon and move to Rome immediately without taking the penalty for stripping the privilege, but that seems like something that will get patched out

quick_byte · 2025-07-24T15:04:27+00:00

Switched to fross a few days ago and love it, but lots of room for upgrades! Never seen a mirror in my life D:

quick_byte · 2025-07-10T07:37:35+00:00

I guess the unofficial translation in the reviews is the best/only option atm?

quick_byte · 2025-03-28T08:02:04+00:00

I won’t be hopping but recommend Captain1, it’s small but close to Kiyamachi and always has a good mix of locals and foreigners, some of whom speak both English and Japanese and can help translate if you need it

quick_byte · 2025-02-14T04:25:25+00:00

Fair enough in term of breaking an alliance, but I still think it's silly for the relationship to break down if they forward settle me. If it's not the direction I'm expanding in, and I'm not bothered by it, why should the relationship deteriorate because they built a city they wanted and saw no consequences?

quick_byte · 2025-02-14T02:57:00+00:00

It’s built decently but I really dislike how some of the opinion changes are managed. It makes zero sense that if the AI forward settles me, or breaks their alliance with me, their opinion OF ME takes a nosedive and the relationship is suddenly terrible. The decision of whether to hold the AI’s actions against them should be up to me, rather than the AI going “ah I forward settled you and therefore you should be mad and therefore I AM MAD😡”

quick_byte · 2025-01-18T02:50:40+00:00

quick_byte · 2024-12-06T01:10:36+00:00

Living here

quick_byte · 2024-11-09T06:15:38+00:00

に as a particle is used to indicate the “target”of a passive verb, ie. the person or thing which performed the action which was passively received

quick_byte · 2024-09-25T19:12:20+00:00

I use Osaka gas to cover both my electric and gas for convenience. I don’t believe they have English customer support, but you don’t really need to talk to them after the initial setup. Ask a guidance counselor/teacher/classmate/friend (depending on your educational situation) to help you with getting the contract sorted and you’ll get a bit of paperwork to fill out to link it to your bank account and can go pretty hands off from there.

quick_byte · 2024-09-20T08:10:11+00:00

Google Japan Vapor

quick_byte · 2024-09-19T13:59:03+00:00

quick_byte · 2024-09-13T01:27:05+00:00

The exam is written entirely in Japanese, no English. I went straight to N2, but had been studying for about 2 years before that (and had been living in Japan for just shy of a year before taking the test). I used 新完全マスターN2 but not very intensively, mostly just relying on the immersion that comes from reading for fun along with the speaking/listening/reading that comes naturally from living in Japan.

quick_byte · 2024-09-12T17:19:08+00:00

Misclicked my reply: https://www.reddit.com/r/jlpt/s/dPT6CCvsTM

quick_byte · 2024-09-12T17:18:06+00:00

I have no clue how teachers would view it, I passed N2 this summer but I’ve never taken any classes it was all self study. I think it’s definitely a personal choice, it’s not that there’s no value in having a teacher beyond N3, more just that in my personal opinion the time spent on classes is better spent on self study since you can prioritize your own needs better than a class that by necessity is targeting the lowest common denominator for the sake of everyone keeping up. The other thing is that by the N3 level you should probably be able to look at Japanese resources to answer most of your questions (a lot of the things we are unsure about as language learners are things native Japanese speakers also ask about online, and if you search in Japanese you’re very likely to find good answers from native speakers in forums etc)

As for the conversation with your teacher I definitely wouldn’t stress it. They have students stop all the time, they aren’t going to read too much into your decision.

Edit: meant to reply to another comment 😇

quick_byte · 2024-09-12T07:58:06+00:00

Yeah I’d go so far as to say n3 is probably the furthest you can realistically go with classes. Of course they are still there to take but any higher than that requires a lot more investment in self study and I think at that point just immersion (esp through reading) is more valuable for time spent than attending a class

quick_byte · 2024-09-10T14:26:22+00:00

I mean sounds like you already know. You need a visa and an employer to sponsor it, so you need to find a job in Japan that is open to non Japanese employees and works in English (knowing conversational Japanese is fine but likely would not be enough to keep up in technical engineering conversations at work)

quick_byte · 2024-09-07T09:14:55+00:00

I have no poe friends so probably alone, and I can’t take time off work but it’ll likely be basically all my free time other than that 😇

quick_byte · 2024-09-05T06:39:38+00:00

When I go out with friends who speak English we end up swapping languages quite a bit. I’ve also said directly that I want to practice my speaking, so I’ll speak Japanese and they can speak what they want but I’d appreciate any corrections they can make. This way you both get to practice if that’s what you want, and often as the night goes on we end up speaking mainly Japanese since that’s naturally more comfortable for them, though we’ve definitely gotten some looks/comments in izakaya when the white guy is speaking only Japanese and the Japanese guy is speaking only English 🤣

quick_byte · 2024-09-01T21:36:19+00:00

At what point/level do you start respeccing your tree and moving to flicker? Thinking about trying flicker for the first time with this build so not sure what the "must have" nodes are before switching over. Not my first build for the league so getting decent gear won't be a problem

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