I’m a Japan born citizen living in America for the past 12 years. I moved from Japan to America during mid second grade of elementary school (7-8year old) and am currently 19. I moved here with my single mother so it’s just my mom and I. I would say I’m decently fluent in Japanese since my mother only speaks to me in Japanese, I sometimes visit family there, but I acknowledge myself that since I moved here during elementary school, there are struggles with understanding more complex words. I can also write and read katana/hiragana just fine but my biggest struggle is only knowing basic kanji. I’m currently a sophomore in college earning to get my bachelors in Business Administration. My question is, is it possible for me to ever go back to live in Tokyo by myself after college? Reading other posts, it seems very unlikely for me to land a job there without a BLP (business language placement). I’ve also heard of people getting remote jobs with us companies but I’m not sure how that works, if I can get a little info about the process. Of course I have family living in Hokkaido and Chiba, but I really only want to try living in Japan if it’s in Tokyo and by myself for as long as possible.
For something more short term and feasible, another thing is that I really wanted to experience living in Tokyo for at least a year and there are some options to do that. I can either join the study abroad program for Tokyo which my school provides but the downside is that they only provide this program for student majoring or minoring in communications, international business, business and affairs, Econ, and some sciences. If I really wanted to peruse this program that would mean that I would either have to change my major, (maybe international business because it seems the closest to business administration) OR I have to minor in one of those majors which would probably push back how fast I can graduate. (Which I’m not sure if that’s the best decision long term). Another option I have is to take all my courses online and using my savings around 15k, to live there for possibly 10 months. Because I have Japanese citizenship I thought I could also pick up a part time job but I’m also not sure if that’s possible for me with some of the language struggles I mentioned earlier. I have a lot going through my head right now so I feel pretty stuck. I’m also a woman and many people have told me that misogyny in workplaces are also very prevalent there.
I’m the type of person to not give up without exploring every single option there is, so if there’s any options I should think about please let me know. Or if there’s other things I could do while living in California to build a better financial security for myself to that maybe one day I could move back to Tokyo
by doraemonlover2000