Working Visas |
- Professor(Examples: university professor, assistant professor, assistant)
- Artist(composers, songwriters, artists, sculptors, craftspeople, photographers)
- Religious activities(religious people such as monks, bishops, missionaries)
- Journalist(newspaper journalists, magazine journalists, editors,news cameramen, announcers)
- Investor/business manager(Examples: company presidents, officers, etc.)
- Legal/accounting services(attorneys, judicial scriveners, public accountants, tax accountants certified in Japan)
- Medical services(physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses certified in Japan)
- Researcher(researchers, investigators, etc. at research institutes, etc.)
- Instructor(Examples: teachers, etc. at elementary schools, intermediate schools and high schools)
- Engineer(Examples: scientific engineers, IT engineers, etc.)
- Specialist in humanities/International Services(foreign language teachers, interpreters, copywriters, designers)
- Intra-company transferee(people transferred to the Japanese branch,head office of the same company)
- Entertainer(musicians, actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, models)
- Skilled labor(chefs specializing in the food of a foreign country, animal trainers, pilots, sports trainers, sommeliers, etc.)
- Highly skilled foreign professional visa
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General visa |
- Cultural activities(Examples: unpaid internships, people studying the tea ceremony or Japanese flower arranging, etc.)
- College student(Examples: college students, pre-college students, etc.)
- Training(Examples:trainees in a local government, etc.)
- Family stays(The spouse and children, etc. of a foreign national on a long-term stay)
- General visa:Technical intern training (i)(a)/(b)
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Specified visa |
- Spouse, etc. of a Japanese national(Examples: spouse of a Japanese national, biological child of a Japanese national)
- Spouse, etc. of a permanent resident(Examples: spouse of a permanent resident, biological child of a permanent resident)
- Long-term resident(Examples: persons with Japanese ancestry, Indochinese refugee settlers, the spouse or children of Japanese nationals left behind in China, etc.)
- Designated activities(Examples: foreign nationals who wish to enter Japan as personal help privately employed by diplomats, etc., foreign nationals who wish to enter Japan for a working holiday or for paid internships, candidate nurses and care workers who wish to enter Japan based on an EPA, etc.)
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