Working visas
Professor
(Examples: university professor, assistant professor, assistant, etc.)
Artist
(Examples: composers, songwriters, artists, sculptors, craftspeople,
photographers, etc.)
Religious
activities (Examples: religious people such as monks, bishops, missionaries,
etc.)
Journalist
(Examples: newspaper journalists, magazine journalists, editors, news
cameramen, announcers, etc.)
Business
manager (Examples: company presidents, directors, etc.)
Legal/Accounting
services (Examples: attorneys, judicial scriveners, public accountants, tax
accountants, etc. certified in Japan)
Medical
services (Examples: physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, etc. certified
in Japan)
Researcher
(Examples: researchers, investigators, etc. at research institutes, etc.)
Tsukuba
University is well known for hiring many international researchers as it is
attempting
Instructor
(Examples: teachers, etc. at elementary schools, intermediate schools and high
schools)
Engineer/Specialist
in humanities/International services (Examples: scientific engineers, IT
engineers, foreign language teachers, interpreters, copywriters, designers,
etc.)
Intra-company
transferee (Examples: people transferred to the Japanese branch (head office of
the same company, etc.)
Entertainer
(Examples: musicians, actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, models, etc.)
Skilled labor (Examples:
chefs specializing in the food of a foreign country, animal trainers, pilots,
sports trainers, sommeliers, etc.)
General visa
Cultural
activities (Examples: unpaid internships, people studying the tea ceremony or
Japanese flower arranging, etc.)
Student
(Examples: college students, pre-college students, etc.)
Training
(Examples: trainees in a local government, etc.)
Dependent
(Family stays) (Examples: The spouse and children of a foreign national with
working visa, etc.)
General
visa: Technical intern training (i)(a)/(b) (Examples: Technical intern)
Specified visa
Spouse
or child of Japanese national (Examples: spouse of a Japanese national,
biological child of a Japanese national)
Spouse
of permanent resident (Examples: spouse 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.)
Designated
activities (Long Stay for sightseeing and recreation)
Diplomatic visa
Diplomat
(Examples: diplomatic agents, diplomatic couriers, etc.)
Official visa
Official (Examples:
administrative and technical staffs of diplomatic missions and members of the
service staff, etc.)
