How to get rich in Japan.

[yukio_michael]

Okay... well, maybe not rich... Rergardless, PingMag (http://www.pingmag.jp/) has a fairly interesting article on setting up your own company in Japan (http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/08/28/setting-up-your-own-company-in-tokyo-as-a-foreigner/), by and for the gaijin...

This comes from Normal Design's (http://www.normal.as/) Ross McBride, who himself started working in Japan in the graphic design field, & soooh, it should appeal to so many of you who ask how you too can break into this particular business.

If you get a job, it is because of your foreignness - to a great degree. If they wanted you to do something that a Japanese person could do just as well, they would ask a Japanese person!

Link again, here (http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/08/28/setting-up-your-own-company-in-tokyo-as-a-foreigner/). Japanese version, here (http://www.pingmag.jp/J/2006/08/28/setting-up-your-own-company-in-tokyo-as-a-foreigner/).

Enjoy.

ed: to any mod who wants to change the title of this thread, the joke doesn't seem worth the thread subject obfuscation.

[Mars Man]

Nice info there yukio_michael san !! I wish I could be a little richer than I am--of course not to insinuate something beyond the truth, to the likes of my presently being 'rich' or something.

Now I'm working on a plan. For the past 7 weeks I have been doing a lot digging around my place laying a lot of pipe, a 1500 liter tank system for collecting rainwater and building a rock retaining wall to hold it all. (and all that digging was by hand !!!) So my plan is to create, and then whirlpool a new pet rock sensation here in Japan. I have a couple of small mountains of rocks collected up now from all that digging. All I have to do now, is get my boys to wash them one by one, glue little pop-eyes that roll around, on them, and paint a kind of smile. Then I'll be rolling in dirt, I meant dough, in no time at all !!! hee, hee, hee......yeah....in my craziest dreams, huh?!!

But seriously, one can get rich here if things click right--even in the teaching business. Nice post yukio !!

[Iron Chef]

Good find, he has some nice insights and worthy advice.

[DoctorP]

an easy way to get rich in Japan is running an Amway distributorship or similar company. Triangle schemes are abundant here and the ones running them make out quite well.

[Ewok85]

I remember talking to an old club teacher of my girlfriends who gets 30万円 a month in what he called "royalties" (katakana). I didn't want to pry too much but sounded like he did something in advertising that basically gave him a steady passive income everymonth for the use of something he owned the rights too.
Promised to talk about it next time, and it sounds... interesting at the very least.

[MASEVO1]

Im a Dj and i Dj sometimes in Nagoya, is it really possible to Dj full time in Japan and make a living, or do i need to get a teaching job in the day and Dj at Night to survive.???

[Mars Man]

I would not guess that it'd be impossible, but it would take a lot moving back and forth between clubs and cities. . . maybe. . .

If you're really good, and lucky (and can hold you own in Japanese) you might make the InterFM scene. (a Tokyo broadcasting company which uses some English and has helped produce some DJ's in the past) MM

ps. It would be nice to hear more from you in an introduction thread in the area set aside for new member's introductions. . .

[yukio_michael]

Im a Dj and i Dj sometimes in Nagoya, is it really possible to Dj full time in Japan and make a living, or do i need to get a teaching job in the day and Dj at Night to survive.???Being a former DJ, I contemplated this myself--- the demand is much smaller than you would think.

Ask yourself how much you are making, and if your skills and popularity and ability to draw at a club are enough for a club to give you both a permanant residency and a work visa--- that's the ONLY thing that makes working in Japan feasible, if you both have a visa to do it, and get paid enough to survive.