Every guide you need to work and live in Japan — organized by topic.
Understand why Japan is worth considering and get the big picture.
Record numbers of foreigners now build careers in Japan — and the door is opening for Indians. The honest case for choosing Japan, trade-offs included.
Visa routes, in-demand jobs, the India–Japan agreement, and a clear step-by-step path from India to a real job in Japan.
Find the visa route and job field that fits your background.
The exact eligibility for Japan's Specified Skilled Worker visa — language, skills test, age, and the 16 eligible fields.
Yes — and here's exactly how. The visa route that values skills over diplomas, and what you need instead.
The sectors hiring most under the SSW visa — and why India is a fast-growing source of workers for Japan.
Both qualify you for the SSW visa — but they differ in format, frequency, and long-term value. Here's how to choose.
Japan's biggest labour shortage is in care work — and Indian nurses and caregivers are well placed to fill it. Salaries, requirements, and how to apply.
The everyday Japanese a care worker actually uses — greetings, the body, daily care, and vital signs — to get you started.
Applications, tests, costs, and what to expect.
The full application path from India — choosing a field, passing the tests, finding an employer, and getting your visa.
A realistic, honest cost breakdown — tests, documents, training — and the fees you should refuse to pay.
Everything an Indian applicant needs to take the JFT-Basic — the test centres, the fee, the format, and how to book.
A Western CV gets quietly rejected in Japan. Here's the resume that actually works — the rirekisho + shokumu-keirekisho system, section by section, with the mistakes Indians make most.
Salaries, taxes, savings, and what happens when you leave.
The headline salary is not what lands in your account, and not what you save. Here's the real math — earnings, deductions, costs, and savings — in ¥ and ₹.
Leaving Japan? Indians can reclaim a lump-sum pension refund — plus a 20.42% tax most people forget to claim back. Eligibility, amounts, the India–Japan agreement, and how to apply.
Pay, hours, job security, and how much Japanese you'll need all change depending on whether you join a Japanese (nikkei) or foreign (gaishikei) company. The honest comparison for Indians.
Learn the language you need for work and daily life.
Hiragana is the very first thing to master in Japanese. Here's the full chart and a simple 7-day plan to read it confidently.
Katakana unlocks the thousands of loanwords in everyday Japanese — coffee, convenience store, even your own name. Here's the chart and how to learn it fast.
What the JLPT N5 vocabulary really covers — how many words, which categories matter most, and how to study them for free.
Zero Japanese to your first JLPT certificate in 3–6 months — the right order to learn things, a weekly rhythm that actually sticks, and the step most beginners skip.
"I'll learn Japanese from anime" usually goes nowhere — passive watching teaches almost nothing. Here's the method that actually works, plus the traps to avoid.
Interactive calculators and utilities.