Recruiters don’t think that non-Japanese people who know how to program AND speak the language well exist. So I basically show up for positions that ask for a

Recruiters don’t think that non-Japanese people who know how to program AND speak the language well exist. So I basically show up for positions that ask for a native Japanese that’s willing to work abroad. I then promote myself based on technical and cultural skills. I’ve legitimately unstuck projects that were stuck for years and getting nowhere within few months because I improved communication and information retrieval. In Germany we have many companies that have a large amount of Japanese customers, but they get nowhere with English. Meanwhile Japanese send some engineers over as sales support instead of establishing a proper local subsidiary that is not just a proxy for sales.