Author: Roman

My husband and I are applying for july 2021. We are not young, fully grown profesionals that decided to begin a new lifestyle and learn the japanese language inmersed in the japanese culture. We are leaving everything to live this amazing experience. We will be devastated if we couldn’t go to Japan and fulfill our lifetime dream.

“I think that as an international student coming to Japan will benefit to Japanese society and economy because moving to Japan is not cheap and we sacrifice a lot of things to go to Japan. Also I think the International student in Japan will help the internationalization of Japan.
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I’ve been waiting for it for almost a year now. I applied to a Japanese University and got accepted in December 2020. And right now I’m a fresh graduate from high school and I’ve been really looking forward to coming to Japan and if it got delayed I’ll be devastated and stressed out, so please we International student and workers just need a confirmation on when we be able to come to Japan and we will surely follow the Japanese Government requirement regarding the health rules and COVID-19 safety protocols. We International student and workers are NOT TOURIST we are people who come to Japan to study and work with the Japanese society to have a new start in Japan, also what about some of us who are already get vaccinated aren’t those get counted to?, So please give us some consideration regarding Japan border restriction. I also wanted to add a comment about the Olympic, if athletes can come why not student and workers can’t enter Japan we International student and workers came to Japan to study and work for years to come but athletes only go to Japan for a couple of months and then when the Olympic is over they go back to their home countries, so please I’m begging you Japanese government and and the Japanese people please hear me out this is our future and our life at stake.

this is my story
Fernaldy R.N.
from Jakarta, Indonesia.

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My special thanks to Davide Rossi for speaking out for us I hope the Japanese government and media will notice us.”

maybe it is the time to move on and find another opportunities if there is another delay i cannot afford to waiting again for another border reopen. Because, im on my last semester at my uni and i need to do my thesis sooner or later. Therefore i really hope that there is a special measure for foreign students to come physcially to japan and we will surely do all of the requirement to make our arrival safe and covid-19 free

As a student in Japan I know that I can generate better connections with my country and its companies, culturally and in the field of job development since my plan is, after studying the language for a while, to work with Japanese companies in my country in the field of engineering and development.

Another delay will set my plan back even further (I already had a year delay before I even applied, due to other circumstances). I’m not getting younger and the road to my end goal is long. (Becoming a translator) The delays and travel ban have been very stressful as each time it pushes back my timeline. Luckily the school I’ll be attending is doing everything they can to let us attend. They will be starting the term off with online classes, for those who are not able to enter yet. This however, means I’ll have to attend classes at 2am in the morning due to the time difference.

Ever since I was young I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture and after a two week home stay in highschool I knew I wanted to one day return to and live and work in Japan. To this end I went to college for a degree in Engineering for a technical high skilled degree. And now that I’ve finally graduated I’m hit with the curve ball of a lifetime and may not be able to follow my life long dream after over five years of waiting.

I had to study my master degree in japanese and thats why I need to learn japanese to be successfully admitted to graduate school. Im afraid i will fail the entrance exam as i didnt understand japanese well.

I am a big adherent of what was previously known as Mass Immersion Approach (and AJATT which serves as the basis for MIA). Its principles allow one to reach quite high proficiency level in foreign languages without going outside of your house. However, lately I have begun to realize that in order to really get the hold of your target language and know all the small societal as well as cultural nuiances in terms of words, one simply must be THERE. In my case, it is Japan. Japan is a very rich in culture country. While books and other media provide the rough image on how things work there, you never get the proper grasp of things and the language. I aim for the near-native level proficiency and being in Japan is a must for me.

Studying Japanese here in in Italy is impossible due to the lack of Japanese people to talk to. I want to to study in Japan not only to learn the language, but the use my talents and invest resources in a country where willing people have the means and possibilities to grow, in both their careers, and as people.

I will still continue to take on-line classes with huge stress and depression as we know how much we can get from online ..so its causing trouble and sense of inferiority and nothing else.