<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> According to Immigration 81% of foreigners
> from OECD countries who complete alien registration leave Japan
> permanently within 36 months of their "landing". Of the remaining 19%,
> from what I can tell from the MOJ's Jinryuu magazine more than half of
> the rest can't hack it and leave before 5 years is up, though some
> hippies flee to Okinawa and distort the statistics.

Let's ask Ryan what he has to say to that...

> of the 416,262
> people to enter Japan last December for instance, there were visas
> issued for 88 professors, 9 journalists, 34 business
> managers/investors, 1 doctor, 29 researchers, 5 "kyouiku", 219
> engineers, 161 specialists in humanities, and 199 corporate drones.
> Spouses of Japanese national visa entrants were only 2086, and there
> were 92 spouses of foreign residents. Take out the 389,279 tourists/
> biztrippers/ culture vultures/ families visitors and prostitutes and
> there aren't many legal entrants left other than Brazilians etc, and
> students.

What kind of visa do Jet "teachers" get?

> I helped someone obtain a work visa through
> self sponsorship (from shugaku to jinbunchishikikokusaigyoumu) quite
> recently and it turned out to be much easier than expected - certainly
> a lot easy than Ireland or Austria. I doubt that much will change.

That's the second case of a self-employed jinbunchishiki-kokusaigyoumu
visa holder that i know of. What kind of work is that person doing, by
the way?

Al