More English websites related to job search in Japan
Recently, there are plenty of internet job sites for foreigners in Japan. Some websites also include general information about everyday life issues in Japan. Here is a selection of job search-related websites. (please also see our articles "Internet job sites" and "Internet job sites 2")
Many of you might have known this website already. b-cause is a company specialized in introducing jobs to foreigners living in Japan. Foreigners from 82 countries that are registered at b-cause also offer multilingual services for Japanese companies.
Managed by: b-cause,Inc.
The company was founded by 7 students from abroad and became a profit organization in 2001. They provide not only job information but also information about everyday life in Japan such as how to call police, etc.
Managed by: b-cause,Inc.There is another jobsite called HIWORK to provide job information for foreigners living in Japan. I think the b-cause website is more focused on part-time jobs and temp staff jobs whereas HIWORK concentrates more on regular employment. They also run website for international exchange events.
Participating in meetings of chambers of commerce of your home country can be a good way to meet people. Although the membership fee is rather expensive, you might meet some important people from the companies you want to work for.
The list of foreign chambers of commerce in Japan
在日外国商工会議所リスト
This list is provided by The Tokyo Chambers of Commerce website
Foreign chambers of commerce and industry
Provided by FPCJ (Foreign Press Center in Japan)
There was a request by several job seekers who participated in the survey we conducted last summer. They asked for a list of foreign affiliated companies in Japan. We thought it would be useful information for many foreign job seekers in Japan. In fact, rather than just focusing on recruiting companies and publicly displayed job ads, direct contact i.e. an unsolicited application sometimes can be a successful way to approach a company. Even if it's not very common in Japan, this approach helps to avoid that the CV ends up in a pile of hunderts of other applications. Just make sure that you send it to the right person.
The list of foreign affiliated companies in Japan
There are probably too many foreign affiliated companies throughout Japan to list all of them, but the following lists should provide quite enough to begin with.
外資系企業一覧 Asahi-net
This is we consider the ultimate list of foreign affiliated companies in Japan provided by Asahi-net. Although it is written in Japanese, it has URLs of all companies listed.
Others
外資系企業一覧 Foreign-affiliated companies in Japan This website lists more than 1500 foreign affiliated companies and their country of origin.
Wikipedia 外資系企業一覧 Well-known Wikipedia's list (in Japanese) is rather limited, but you can get here some more objective information about the bigger international companies in Japan.
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