Is it possible to lifeguard in Japan?

Question

I'm getting a scholarship for almost 5,000 this year and also in the program I am in(Americorps), I can choose to have lifeguard training. I have really wanted to go to college in Japan and wanted to either learn to be an English Second Language teacher or just go to college for the heck of it, but with this lifeguard training presenting a new opportunity I want to take it.

Answer 1

So you want to go to college in Japan and lifeguard part time?  Actually, you need to give a lot more information here, if you want a halfway decent answer.  But from what you have described, I think it might be tough for you to lifeguard in Japan.  Legally you cannot enter Japan on a tourist visa to look for work (although people still do).  You would need to line up your life guard position from overseas, and then whoever hired you would have to take care of all the visa stuff.  But lifeguards are not the type of jobs where they are typically looking for foreigners.  I don't know much about student visas, but I imagine they are pretty strict about work, meaning that you probably aren't allowed to on a student visa.  But good luck anyhow.  Maybe you can get a job as an English teacher, and then look for lifeguarding work on the side.