Japan is a unique wonderful place, however if you do not understand the culture and their way of life here it will be a mistake coming here. I live across the street from a Japanese Junior High School and the teachers are first to show up 6:00 AM and last to go home 6:30 PM. Teachers often have to work on weekends as the students always come first. If you cannot accept this type of teaching and commitment then I would say Japan is not a place to come and work.

There are other factors to consider when moving here, the language is the hardest to over come. Coming here on a short vacation and living here are two totally different things. Teaching English is a commitment you will have to take seriously here. As a permanent resident I see lot of JET or other English teachers come here and fail and bash the Japanese because it is so difficult because they refused to conform to the Japanese system. A lot of the English teachers here how to put it nicely, are undesirables of their own country and culture and really make it difficult for us permanent residents who do conform to this society and choose to live here.

Just one man?s opinion.