Immigrating and working in Japan?

Question

I read recently in a newspaper that since Japan's population is aging fast (some 10 percent of Japanese people is 75 year old or over and birth rate is among the lowest), government is struggling to keep economic growth in a reasonable pace due to expenditures with welfare security, health care and also due to people in active age be each time less. Do you think Japan will open up to qualified immigration like UK and Australia are doing nowadays for example, or the best ways to work and live in Japan for a foreigner would be:

1 - Marry a Japanese

2 - or being hired by a Japanese company foreign office and be invited to work there?

Thanks and please serious answers!

Answer 1

I don't think Immigration law will change, Japanese society is not a multicultural one and I don't think it will change in our lifetime.

Getting married to a Japanese is probably the simplest and best way because it will open a lot of doors, the thing is you need a guarantor to rent a flat , if you want to have a credit card from a Japanese bank than it will help to have a Japanese spouse, basically the Japanese cannot trust foreigner they need to have a Japanese national to be liable for you, so you can almost live a normal life in Japan by getting everything using your spouse identity.

If you are lucky enough to find a company in Japan  to hire you and sponsor you for a visa then that will do of course, outside of Tokyo, the only job available for foreigners is native language instructors, in Tokyo there are more options but you will have to compete with people who come from 3rd World countries and will work for almost nothing, they just come to Japan to make a quick bucks so don't get your expectations too high.

Good luck !