About me:
- 28, male, single, no kids (no plans to have any in the future)
- Dual citizen (JP/US), born and lived in California, US my whole life
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Mostly bilingual. I can speak at a native level, but can't read too well. I've never taken JLPT, but when looking at mock material online, I can read 100% of N3 and roughly 50-60% of N2/N1
- When I meet new people in Japan, I have to tell them I'm American or they wouldn't be able to tell
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Currently make $120k USD as a software engineer. I work hybrid. I have less than an experience in this field
- Also freelance and run side businesses but, in total, they only generate about $100-300/month
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Aside from immediate family, all my relatives live in various parts of Japan. I also have friends (both Japanese Japanese and Japanese-Americans) in Tokyo and Osaka
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I'm in Japan 1-2 months out of the year
I believe the best way to move to Japan in my situation would just be to find a remote/async tech job and split my time between US and Japan (so that I can maintain the US salary). Seeing that I have a place to live in the US and in Japan, as well as some language support (for filling out documents), I know this would be a pretty golden method. My biggest hurdle would be finding this remote/asynch tech job.
Because I'm still new to this industry and the market isn't great right now, I want to explore options that don't require this unicorn position in case the market doesn't get better. Apart from finding a position at a Japanese software company, working remote for a US company (in the middle of the night), or leaving the field altogether and just finding another job in Japan (which I'm not fully opposed to), what are my options?
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