My partner and I are US citizens in our early 40s. We have no children and are both nearing the last 10 years in our careers. We both make really good money as my partner is a director at her job and I am a CTO at a small sized company (35 people under me). We both have higher education degrees mine is a bachelor degree in Computer Science. Her’s is a bit more advanced but not as easy to transfer to other countries (lawyer).
This puts us both in a unique place. One where we both have and make very generous salaries, plenty of money saved, and live an upper middle class lifestyle. We can afford private Japanese language tutors and be selective on the areas of town we live.
Would it be hard for someone in my position to find a work visa in Japan? Where would you recommend starting and looking? Would our work life balance be extremely different in Japan? I don’t have to manage I could always go back to engineering. Has anyone moved close to our situation and what was the journey like?
We currently speak little Japanese but are learning. We are both smart and a large part of our identity comes from the work we do. We have always been career driven individuals.
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